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The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This one was really interesting, though in the beginning I wasn't sure I would like it. It starts in 1930s China, which I knew nothing about prior to reading this. The narrator is a young girl who is almost abnormally observant. We follow her throughout her life and she leaves Shanghai for LA when she is 7 years old. I really liked the progression of a young child who is trying to listen to adults and understand adult thinking to the narrator becoming an adult with children of her own. The father was hard to sympathize with, but I did feel bad for him when he was in prison and after he died and his daughter found out how he was living.

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