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A powerful new book about a typical family facing amazing times in the beginning of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. China, 1957: Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society. "Let 100 blossoms bloom; let 100 universities of thought contend." Many intellectuals dread it is only a trick, and Kai Ying's spouse, Sheng, a teacher, has promised never to jeopardize their basic safety or that of their young boy, Tao. But one July day, just before his 6th birthday, Tao pieces helplessly as Sheng is dragged away for writing a notice criticizing the Communist Get together and delivered to a labor camp for "reeducation". A calendar year later, still lacking his father desperately, Tao climbs to the top of the 100-year-old kapok tree before their home, attempting to see the pile peaks in the distance. But Tao slips and tumbles 30 legs to the courtyard below, terribly breaking his leg. As Kai Ying struggles to hold her small family collectively in the face of this shattering reminder of her husband's absence, other people of family members must face their own guilty secrets and strive to find tranquility in a world where in fact the old sense of order is falling. Once more, Tsukiyama brings us a powerfully moving account of standard people facing amazing circumstances with elegance and courage.
