دانلود کتاب The Fourth Daughter 2025

The Fourth Daughter (2025) by Lyn Liao Butler follows Liv Kuo, a promising chef in Manhattan whose career and life are derailed by a traumatic event that leaves her confined to her apartment. Her grandmother, Ah-Ma, calls with a decades-old secret: the fourth daughter was given away as an infant, and Ah-Ma has long searched for her. Encouraged by Ah-Ma, Liv travels to Taiwan to help find this aunt she never knew; in doing so, she confronts family history, political turmoil under martial law, and painful truths stored in old recipes and memories.

As Liv and Ah-Ma pursue the search, the novel weaves between past and present, bringing to light betrayal, loss, and resilience. Through food, tradition, and the bond between grandmother and granddaughter, Lyn Liao Butler crafts a story about identity, forgiveness, and healing. In the process, Liv must face her own unresolved trauma and discover what it means to reclaim parts of her family she didn’t even know were missing¹.