A review by spiderfelt
Nine Continents: A Memoir in and Out of China by Xiaolu Guo

4.0

Memoirs offer a fascinating insight into a time and place, one that can not be fully recreated by historical fiction. Guo's memoir dropped the reader into China after the end of the Cultural Revolution, amid the poverty of rural life in a rocky fishing village where her grandparents struggled to scrape together a life with few resources. I was captivated by her description of the time and place as she aged.