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“In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old”
This impactful novel is told masterfully by Madeline Thien and takes you on a journey through an extended family’s life in China. This novel shows the lives of two successive generations from the Mao’s Cultural Revolution to the student protests of Tinanmen Square. At the center of this story Marie and Ai-Ming piece together their fractured family in Vancouver and how the past has shaped who their family is now.
“In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old”
This impactful novel is told masterfully by Madeline Thien and takes you on a journey through an extended family’s life in China. This novel shows the lives of two successive generations from the Mao’s Cultural Revolution to the student protests of Tinanmen Square. At the center of this story Marie and Ai-Ming piece together their fractured family in Vancouver and how the past has shaped who their family is now.