Moying Li

I just discovered that I read this book ten years ago and had no memory of it. Wow. My review said the writing was "bland," and I'm afraid my opinion hasn't changed. To have completely forgotten a book, it must have made no impression on me. The thing is, the story is very interesting, but it doesn't move me in any way. For me, the narrative is very flat. To have read this twice with the same reaction and totally forgotten it, I must have a) had an interest in what it was like to live through the Cultural Revolution and b) gotten very little out of it. I often forget characters and whole plots, but not that I have read a book. I just think it could have been so much more.… (mehr)

A moving and tense memoir about Moying Li's childhood in China, including quiet and peaceful times at home with family and at school with friends, to the trauma and heartbreak caused by the Cultural Revolution and communism under dictatorship in China. A true story that will reach young American readers looking to learn more about this important time in Chinese and world history from the perspective of a young girl, now an author living in Massachusetts. This title is a previous winner of the Massachusetts Book Award.… (mehr)