In her loneliness, Wu Mei turns to books for company: “I was alone with my beloved books. Her father even forgets the spelling of her name when filling out her school enrollment record. She is denied carfare, frequently forgotten at school at the end of the day, and whipped for daring to attend a classmate’s birthday party against Niang’s wishes. As the youngest of her five siblings, Wu Mei suffers the worst at the hands of her stepmother Niang. “Fifth Younger Sister” or “Wu Mei,” as Yen Mah was called, is only an infant when her father remarries after her mother’s death. Chinese Cinderellais the perfect title for Adeline Yen Mah’s compelling autobiography in which, like the fairy-tale maiden, her childhood was ruled by a cruel stepmother.
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