Ankita Singh Singh থেকে General Viamonte Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
This is... well, amazing. I couldn't put it down, and it's one of those books that didn't make me grind my teeth. Jung's ability to weave together the life story of her grandmother, mother, and her own story was nothing short of amazing. I especially loved the section on her grandmother and just how cohesive it seemed to be. In this biography/autobiography, we get a look at there women who grew up in three very different times in China. We have the grandmother during the last faltering years of the Qing dynasty and the building of warlord China. We have the mother during the early years of the communist regime when it still seemed like it might work. And we have the daughter, growing up in the midst of the Cultural Revolution. It's three startling different stories and I really enjoyed it!
Crazy shit! I could never live in the 60's (unlike everyone else in my damn generation. It's gone! Leave it!) But it's crazy to read about the things that went on. Not so much free love, as a detachment from reality. I feel like half the generation was thinking, 'lets explore the possibilities of a higher conscious!', and the other half was thinking 'I'm want to do the opposite of mommy and daddy, and fuck anything that moves!'. It's amazing these people are my elders.