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Fabulous writing. Really enjoyed the mix of Chinese folklore with biography. Learned a LOT about life in a totally foreign (to me) and fascinating culture.
Mrs Kingston showed up at my school for a writer's workshop/lecture, so having not read any of her work previous I quickly bought this book and read it. a lot of it I didn't honestly understand it, though a lot of people get confused cause they're unsure whether or not it's fiction, to me I just read it entirely as a work of fiction. For me, I just didn't understand the subject matter. Maybe its cause I'm a dude and therefore "girlhood" is something foreign to me, but really I felt like I wasn't
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