Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up

Xiaolu Guo

304 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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‘Ah, Xiaolu, you are so big now!’ Then I heard my grandmother speaking behind the woman, ‘This is your mother, call her mother!’ I stared at the woman, perplexed.Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is six. They are strangers t...

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Moods

reflective 94%
sad 70%
emotional 64%
informative 58%
inspiring 29%
challenging 23%
adventurous 17%
dark 17%
hopeful 17%
tense 11%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 27%
fast 5%

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4.12

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