Article posted: 5/14/2013 6:00 AM

Min’s life explored in new memoir

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"The Cooked Seed" by Anchee Min

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Chinese author Anchee Min, whose first memoir, "Red Azalea," told the story of her youth in China growing up under the leadership of Chairman Mao and introduced many to the true horrors of that regime, picks up here where she left off in "A Cooked Seed." It's 1984, she's 27 and on a plane bound for Chicago with a $500 loan in her pocket, no understanding of English and only a vague plan to study art.