title: Really Enough: A True Story of Tyranny, Courage and Comedy
author:  Kathleen Martens 
description: <b>High IQ Organization Smart Book Lovers Announces 2012 Sharp Writ Book Awards Winners -- Wall Street Journal</b><br> <b></b><br> SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21, 2013 /<br><br>Really Enough, an exquisitely written narrative by two San Francisco Bay authors, won the award in the Memoir/Biography category. The novel tells the uplifting true story of one woman's daunting struggle for survival, freedom, and forbidden love under Chairman Mao.<br> "Winning the esteemed Sharp Writ Book Award furthers our book's mission to empower readers through this true story of hope," said Really Enough authors, Kathleen Martens and Margaret Zhao.<br /><br /><b>Smart Book Lovers -- From the 2012 Sharp Writ Book Awards judges:</b><br><br>* I loved this book! I read it straight through in one sitting. It was as good as Lisa See's Shanghai Girls! I hope there is a sequel.<br /><br />From The Smart Book Lovers--2012 Sharp Writ Book Awards Judges:<br><br>* This book is an absolutely fabulous memoir. The story this woman has to tell is riveting and the book is hard to put down. Wonderful! A good example of a memoir that works on both levels (the story and the writing).<br>* This is a brilliant book - had to read it in one go. It showed how a child and her family survived the Chinese Revolution and how that child self taught herself English and eventually moved to America. Her humor lightens what was a horrific time for many in China. Well worth reading.
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  # PRAISE FOR NO CALL TOO SMALL
  
  
  “Martens’s striking, perceptive collection illuminates a range of Canadians in
  moments of bad luck and dissatisfaction. In the title story, an unnamed Port
  Moody, B.C., cop, whose face has been disfigured from a dog attack, refuses to
  wear his prosthetic nose, costing him his relationship and earning him the
  nickname “The Face.” Martens’s haunting, darkly funny situations, captured in
  crisp, spare prose, will appeal to fans of George Saunders.”
  
  
  _— Publishers Weekly_
  
  
  “Oscar Martens’s characters hurtle their way toward potential disaster or
  redemption in these vivid stories of lives burdened by misunderstandings and
  disappointment, usually self-inflicted. Martens’s strong prose is a pleasure
  to read, with dark humour and lively storytelling that brings a quirky
  humanity to his characters.”
  
  
  — Janie Chang, author of _Dragon Springs Road_
  
  
  “A young girl stuck on a Ferris wheel in a lightning storm, caught between the
  madness of her m