The Exile

Portrait of an American Mother

Pearl S. Buck

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • biography
  • china
  • missionaries
  • missions
  • mothers of authors
  • open library staff picks
  • vietnamese language books
  • women missionaries