I didn't particularly enjoy this book. I know that I'm in a minority in that opinion though. It's not an easy book to read. It plods along, but is fascinating and unsettling. It was interesting to me to see the changes that occurred in China in just a few short generations.

Historically it's fascinating and follows the lives of a woman and her mother and grandmother through the reign and fall of warlords, the Japanese occupation, and the rise of Communism and Chairman Mao.

But, more than anything, it's heartbreakingly sad. It's a well-written, interesting book. I just didn't like it.