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Compestine's storytelling throughout this gripping account of life during China's Cultural Revolution," and the San Francisco Chronicle declared it "candid and credible, naive and nuanced." The novel has won numerous awards of excellence in literature, including
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Ling spends nights alone by herself during the night because her mother worked nights in the hospital and her father was no longer there. She became old enough to take over shopping for her mother and began to haggle and barter for food bought with ration tickets and by any possible means. One day
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