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The Exile

Portrait of an American Mother

by Pearl S. Buck

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The Exile is a memoir/biography about Pearl Buck's mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker (1857–1921), describing her life growing up in West Virginia and life in China as the wife of the Presbyterian missionary Absalom Sydenstricker.

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