A remarkable blend of truth and storytelling.’ Booklist, starred review’An insightful memory’s eye view of her childhood… One comes to appreciate the generous affection of her nurse/companion Lin Nai Nai, the isolating distance in her mother’s grief over losing a second child, the dynamics of a suffering population venting its hostility on foreigners, and most of all, the loneliness of a child’s exile from a homeland she has imagined constantly but never seen… The accolades speak for themselves:’Fritz draws the readers into scenes from her youth in the turbulent China of the mid twenties.
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