Wendy Law-Yone opens her first novel with the phrase of a survivor, ""Living things prefer to go on living."" A young woman and her older half-brother are expelled from their home in Burma by a savage political coup. Sent to elusive safety in America, the motherless siblings find themselves engulfed by the indifference, hypocrisy, and cruelty of an American society unable to deal with difference. Her brother's inevitable suicide drives the unnamed narrator into the seclusion of a mental hospital, where memories of her childhood and the strength it ingrained in her are enough to heal her heart and return her to the outside world.
- ISBN10 0224029630
- ISBN13 9780224029636
- Publish Date 1 January 1900
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English