Title: Poignant Portrait of Soaring Above
Product review: Ms. Chang (whose birth name Er-Hong means 'another/second wild swan') leads us from the anonymous shadowy past of her great-grandmother's enforced ignominy, her grandmother's struggle to find redemption and peace, through her Mother's blatant heroism and to the emergence from her own chrysalis of Maoism.Beautifully told, Ms. Chang leaves no one in her family whose story can be shared left out, and like ripples of fingers touching the water's surface, she weaves the lives of those around her family artfully and honestly into her story. While the tale often reads like a Sysiphean struggle, Ms. Chang never neglects the beauty and stubbornly pervasive hope that blossoms through the cracks in 20th century China.Historical, lyrical, part biography and autobiography, tragic, romantic and inspiring, there are few readers who would not enjoy this book with great satisfaction and end it with a hunger for more.
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