Title: Daughters of Shandong
Author: Chung, Eve J.
Publisher: Berkley
Pages: 400
Date Read: 16 March 2025
Bookshelves: read, favorites
My Rating (out of 5): ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A great book about family, gender, trauma and survival. The book was set in 1950s China. And through the eyes of the narrator, Hai, we understand the heartbreaking reality of what it means to be a girl/woman in China at a time of great cultural, geographic and economic flux.
It was very well-written, easy to read and proceeded with an urgency I have come to seek in the books i read. Rarely do books leave me with a mission upon completion but I left this book with a goal to use my modest talents to document my family’s story before these stories get lost to time.
A fantastic book. Will recommend