When Ji-Li finds out she cannot join the Red Successors because her dad told her it would not be good idea, she wonders why. At this time, she did not even imagine what was going on in her family. She was growing up with her brother and sister, mom, dad and grandma. She becomes humiliated in front of her whole class when she is told that her grandfather was a landlord, expoliting guiltless farmers. This class status stops her from being liked by any of her classmates and forces her to blame herself for her family's past. Her life goes from bad to worse as a poster (called a da-zi-bao) says that she had a relationship with her math teacher. It obviously isn't true. Later in the book, her dad is locked up and taken away because of false accusations that he was caught listening to foreign radio, a sin in China at this time. Her house is searched for weapons and her whole life is torn apart when she finds a letter that complained about the situation her entire family was in.
This book really touched me as one of the most beautiful stories anyone could ever read. It opened my eyes as to what our world was and still is like, and really made me think about how people are treated, and the unfairness of this. I actually read this book for school, and am so glad I did, as it would not have been a story I would pick up on a regular bookshelf. Although this is not a genre I am particularly open to, or educated about, I really enjoyed reading this story, and would love to learn more about the world through memoirs like this. I recommend this book to anyone from the age of 11 or 12, up the the age of 100, this story will never get old.
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