Reviewed by B. Ullsvik, April 2023
This book takes place in China. She tells the story, through a child's eyes, the moving story of growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. This is the true story of fourteen-year-old Ting-xing’s life turned upside down by China’s Cultural Revolution. After the death of both her parents, Ting-Xing and her four siblings endure the brutality of Red Guard attacks on their schools and even their house as they struggle against poverty and hunger. At sixteen, Ting-Xing herself is exiled to a prison farm far from home. Her life was thrown out the window right away. This book tells her tale of surviving the Cultural Revolution, and her life.