The long march home

Description:

The Long March Home tells the story of three generations of women. Agnes, a young Canadian goes to China as a missionary, and falls in love with a Chinese medical student. Growing anti-western sentence forces her to return home to Nova Scotia, where she discovers she is pregnant. Meihua, their American-born daughter, travels to China in search of the father she never met and winds up marrying a Chinese man, but the Cultural Revolution tears their lives apart. With both parents imprisoned, it falls to the family's illiterate servant, Yao, to shield their daughter, Yezi, and her brother, from family tragedy, poverty and political discrimination, negotiating their survival during the revolution that she barely understands. Only after her mother is released, does Yezi, learn about her foreign grandmother, Agnes. Curious about her ancestry, Yezi travels to the U.S. to meet Agnes and learn about her life in China with the man her mother still longs to find. [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwVp-pbDneI

subjects: Historical novel,  Canadian missionary,  The Cultural Revolution,  Chinese American,  Family saga,  Women’s fiction,  历史小说,  文革,  加拿大传教士,  华裔,  Book,  Inanna Publications,  Zoë S. Roy,  American literature,  Fiction,  History

People: Yezi,  Meihua,  Yao,  Agnes

Places: Kunming,  Nova Scotia,  Chengdu,  Boston

Times: 1920s-1980s