Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
- ISBN10 0805082077
- ISBN13 9780805082074
- Publish Date 21 August 2007 (first published 14 August 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Henry Holt & Company Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Language English