Guo’s memoir is a strange mixture of harrowing stories combined with the steely determination of a desperate youth. Guo finds life in the village to be miserable, except for the small kindnesses her beaten down grandmother can offer, even after her grandfather commits suicide. The title refers to a Taoist monk’s prophesy for the young Guo, predicting she would travel far beyond her near feudal fishing village of the 1970s. The magazine Granta included her as one of the Best of Young British Novelists in its last list in 2013. Freedom!” — she recalls the hallowed cry of youth from almost anywhere).

Source: thestar October 13, 2017 11:15 UTC