Wild Swans

 

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book is informative, insightful, entertaining, eye-opening. So many lives seem to be crowded in this triple-generational memoir. The grandmother is sold as a concubine, the mother is a prominent leader in the Communist movement, and the daughter tries her hardest to discern what is right and wrong, how to survive and love, and how to find beauty when she can. I am amazed at this little family and despite all the turbulence around them still manage to create deep loving feelings for each other and a loyalty that supersedes their comfort or their survival. The truth of Communism in China and the Land. Reform, Cultural Revolution, and all the power reversals and rise of the Cult of Personality of Mao was interesting in and of itself, but add to that the fates and fortunes of this family and I literately could not put it down.

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