I had to read this book for school. This is a true story about a girl living in China during the time of the Cultural Revolution, when Chairman Mao was leading the Chinese on with the great leap forward. Anyways, Ji li, the girl, is telling the story from her point of view about everything that happened because she came from a family with a black background. If a family has a black background then it means that one of the ancestors in the family had a not right job (this could be a spoiler for you, if you're anything like me but in ji li's case it was that her grandfather was a landlord which is bad because all landlords "exploit" people).
In my opinion the book was good. It could have been better, but it was still good. I love to read and write and I kept noticing little details that could be changed to make the book happier and maybe give it more plot. But now, looking back after I have read the book, I think that if any of those details had been changed the book would have to have been completely different and wouldn't have shown the realistic harshness of that time.
If you have to read a book for school about China during this time period, or even if you're given this book to read for school and you're doubting it a little bit I will tell you this: it's better than you may think. I didn't have a very high expectation for this book when I read it because usually books for school are boring. When I started to read the book there would be times where I had to read another chapter and times when I wanted to stop in the middle of a chapter. But when I got about halfway through the book I just didn't want to put it down.
I guess I would rate this book a 6/10. Also, I'll just let you know right now, I'm a sappy person and this book made me cry.
-Flounder
-Flounder
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