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In this forthright memoir, acclaimed writer and filmmaker Guo (honorary associate professor, Univ. of Nottingham; I Am China) recounts the difficult, at times traumatic, circumstances she endured while growing up in late 20th-century China. Guo's parents left her as an infant with her illiterate and impoverished grandparents in a small fishing village on the East China Sea. Shockingly, the author witnessed her grandfather's suicide as a young child. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More