The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother is Pearl S.
She struggled to keep her family safe and healthy, her first three children dying young and the fourth, Pearl, narrowly escaping the same fate.
She would spend the rest of her life there, enduring a harsh, isolated existence in the poor, hostile interior of China.
Buck\'s intensely moving memoir of her mother, Caroline (Carrie) Stulting Sydenstricker, who set off to China as the bride of a zealous Presbyterian missionary in 1880.
The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother is Pearl S