Angela Lee Chen
ASIN: B07PL9DSZL
Publisher: Blue Peony Publishing
Pages: 308
“It held my interest from cover to cover.” – Qat Wanders, editor and bestselling author.Poignant and wry, Standing Out is a profoundly honest story that explores the nature of belonging and finding one's place in the world.Angela had a confusing childhood.Born in New York City to Chinese parents, at the age of three, the family relocated to Kenya in East Africa for her father’s UN job. At school, she lost friends every year to diplomatic transfer. And Dad required her to blend in while traveling with her parents on home leave to China every two years.The loss of a brother when only seven, and her parents going on to adopt two more, made for an ever-changing family dynamic.With a quiet, authoritarian father and a distant mother, she learned early to find affirmation outside the home. She flourished academically, graduating with a biology degree from Yale and a doctorate in acupuncture ...