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Great Leaps

Finding Home in a Changing China

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Great Leaps

By: Colin Flahive
Narrated by: Colin Flahive
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In Great Leaps, Colin Flahive explores China's rural-urban migration against the backdrop of his own transition from Colorado to southwest China. There he partnered with three friends to open a café that became much more than simply an outpost of Western cuisine in a far-flung corner of the world.

Over the course of a decade, Salvador's Coffee House became home to more than 50 young women from mountain villages in the surrounding countryside. Most knew nothing about coffee or Western food, but they moved to the city to work at Salvador's and earn their independence.

Great Leaps follows the challenges faced by Colin, his partners and his employees as they leave their old lives behind to make a new home in a foreign land. They encounter unlikely successes, endure heartbreaks and nearly lose everything. But by taking the leap together, they all find their own places in the modern Chinese dream.

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A heart felt, open and honest memoir of a Westerner moving his life to China. A fascinating insight into the lives of migrant workers who move from villages in rural China to find jobs in its mega cities.

If you want to read first hand experience of what life is like in the south west of China, this is the book to read.

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A fascinating look at different people’s lives in China. You really get to see a different side of what has happened and the changes taking place there.

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