Repeat After Me: A Novel - Couverture souple

'A tender story of manic love and loss, this is a heartbreaking and uplifting novel with memorably off-kilter leads' --Publishers Weekly

'Cultures don't so much collide as coalesce in DeWoskin's sparkling debut novel... infusing her multicultural narrative with vibrant observations that glitter with laser-intense acuity, she demonstrates a smart, sophisticated literary agility' --Booklist (starred review)

'Cultures don't so much collide as coalesce in DeWoskin's sparkling debut novel... infusing her multicultural narrative with vibrant observations that glitter with laser-intense acuity, she demonstrates a smart, sophisticated literary agility' --Booklist (starred review)

The original Foreign Babe in Beijing returns with her "heartbreaking and uplifting" (PW) debut novel, Repeat After Me. Aysha is a twenty-two-year-old New Yorker recovering from her parents' divorce and a nervous breakdown. Everything changes when the young Chinese dissident, Da Ge, enrolls in her English class hot on the heels of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Improbably and inescapably in love with Da Ge, Aysha ends up pulled in directions she never expected. Richly textured and full of sharp cross-cultural observations, Repeat After Me plunges the reader into a persuasive tale about love, loss, and language.