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It's Tuesday . . . time to share book excerpts with:
- First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea, where bloggers post the first paragraph(s) of a book they are currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.
- Teaser Tuesdays hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading, where bloggers post two (2) random “teaser” sentences--no spoilers allowed--to try to entice others to seek out these books.
![Mambo in Chinatown](https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1392875733l/18693922.jpg)
One
My name is Charlie Wong and I'm the daughter of a dancer and a noodle-maker. My mother was once a star ballerina at the famed Beijing Dance Academy before she ran off to marry my father, the handsome noodle-maker in Beijing--or at least that's what she always called him before she died. Hand in hand, they escaped to America to start their family. Unfortunately, my mother's genes seemed to miss me altogether. I took after Pa, minus the good-looking part. And minus the manual dexterity as well: he never managed to pass his considerable noodle-making skills on to me, much as he tried. So at twenty-two years old I was instead working as a dishwasher at a restaurant in New York's Chinatown. Pa was their noodle master. Customers lined up at the back door to purchase packages of his uncooked noodles to take home.
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Teaser: "Lisa hugged me tightly before she left for Uncle's office. 'You'll be great. You're so much better than you think you are.'" ~ p. 46What do you think? Would you continue reading?
What are you reading now or planning to read soon?
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