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

336 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Description

Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a...

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Moods

reflective 95%
emotional 65%
sad 65%
informative 55%
inspiring 30%
adventurous 20%
challenging 20%
dark 20%
hopeful 20%
tense 15%
funny 5%

Pace

medium 71%
slow 23%
fast 4%

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