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Author:

Compestine, Ying Chang.

Title:

Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel / Ying Chang Compestine.

Edition:

First Square Fish ed.

Publisher:

Square Fish / Henry Holt and Company,

Copyright Date:

2009, c2007

Description:

248 p. : map ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Family--Fiction.
Persecution--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Physicians--Fiction.
Communism--Fiction.
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Fiction.

Notes:

Includes discussion questions and "Go fish," an interview with the author. Includes an excerpt from "A banquet for hungry ghosts: a collection of deliciously frightening tales," another book by the author.

Summary:

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

ISBN:

0312581491
9780312581497 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317929145

Locations:

XEPE697 -- Red Oak Public Library (Red Oak)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)