Wild Ginger
The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her ""foreign-colored eyes."" Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution. It is through the quieter, more skeptical Maple, a less than ardent Maoist whose father is languishing in prison for a minor crime, that we see this story to its tragic end. The Red Guards have branded Wild Ginger's deceased father a traitor and eventually drive her mother to a gruesome suicide, but she fervently embraces Maoism to save her spirit. She rises quick
240 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin · ISBN 9780547349374
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- Wild Ginger · Houghton Mifflin · 2002 · ISBN 9780547349374 This page
- Wild Ginger · Houghton Mifflin · 2002 · ISBN 9780618068869
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