In the radical atmosphere of the Cultural Revolution, Lian's family has lost their prominence and is considered beneath contempt. Just as Lian forms a friendship with Kim, a reviled outcast of the third caste, ironically, the highest class by Mao's d...
The betrayals of family members by one another have been portrayed in recent novels of modern China, but the truth of a prevailing class system has not been as movingly written until this first novel by Chinese writer Lulu Wang. Lian's family has los...