Message from chdonelan

[Anonymous]

Meyer has a very interesting way of combining personal memoir with history. Most of the time I have been more engaged by the history sections, but I really enjoyed the section in the end of chapter 2 when Frances offers her alternatives to the platitudes contained in the American fortune cookies they receive. There's a darkly ironic sense of humor there that seems to be part of what Meyer understands as the peculiarly Northeastern Chinese sensibility.