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 1429924551
- ISBN13 9781429924559
- Publish Date 29 September 2009 (first published 14 August 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Henry Holt & Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 256
- Language English