How Sweet the Bitter Soup

Her mom was working as a maid. Her dads Alzheimers was in high gear. And the rent on her parents small Chicago apartment had just gone up. Again. But Lori was holding it all together: helping care for her dad and pay her familys bills, figuring out how to navigate graduate school and four jobs on top of her family responsibilities, and, somehow, continuing to believe that there was more to life than this. And there was. An exciting job teaching at a prestigious school in China. Although the previous month, she had turned down a job offer in Iowathinking it was too far away from her familyshe felt completely at ease accepting the job in China. Grasping on to the fierce determination shed had since childhood, Lori found herself in Guangzhou, China, where she fell in love with the culture and with a man from a tiny town in Hubei province. What followed was a transformative adventureone that will inspire readers to use the bitter to make life even sweeter.