Pearl of China by Anchee Min [in Library Journal]
15 Apr, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost
Min opens her latest with guilty sobs recalling her "brainwashed" teenaged self in 1970s China, when she was forced to denounce Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning writer Pearl S. Buck to Madame Mao. That guilt clearly drove Min (Red Azalea) to write this "based on the...