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Title	:	The Long March Home
Author	:	Zoë S. Roy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 270 pages
Published	:	November 7th 2011 by Inanna Publications & Education
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. China. Asia

The Long March Home

Zoë S. Roy

Paperback | Pages: 270 pages

Rating: 4.28 | 36 Users | 24 Reviews

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The novel is the story of three generations of women, Agnes, a grandmother who as a young woman went to China as a Canadian missionary nurse and who falls in love with a Chinese doctor who acts as her interpreter. Shortly after anti-western sentiment sends her home in a hurry she discovers she is pregnant by him. Attempts by her, and later their daughter, to contact him fail. Her daughter, Meihua, goes to China to look for her father and ends up marrying a Chinese man and teaching art. The Cultural Revolution sees her sent to prison as a American spy suspect and anti-revolutionary, and her husband confined to a gulag. Their children, still at home, are raised by the family's illiterate servant, Yao. Yao's crude manner and resourcefulness partly shield Yezi, Meihua's daughter, and the novel's main character, from family tragedy, poverty and political discrimination, negotiating their survival during the revolution that she barely understands. Only after her mother released, does Yezi hear about her foreign grandmother, Agnes, who lives in Boston and has lost contact with the family since Yezi's birth. Curious about her American ancestry, Yezi now a teenager, joins Agnes in the U.S. Reading her grandmother's diaries helps Yezi get to know her grandmother as a young Canadian missionary and her life in China with the man who is her grandfather, and who her mother longed to find.

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ISBN:	192670827X (ISBN13: 9781926708270)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.28 From 36 Users | 24 Reviews

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Compelling read. Beautifully written. I hope this is not Ms. Roy's last novel.

An engaging story, set between China and Boston, that got me from the first page.Warning (in case this matters to you), this book was given to me by the author so I could review it.This book takes you through the lives of three women; grandmother, mother and daughter and centers on the events of the Cultural Revolution in China. It is a quick read but packs in a surprising depth and level of detail. I really enjoyed the flow from the mother to daughter's storyline, painting a picture with

Lovely! The reader feels as if he/she were listening to an oral history of a family. The story is warm and heartfelt. And, although not all the memories or stories within these pages is significant to the plot, it doesnt matter since, as in all family histories, the stories are interesting, human and add a depth of character to the story as a whole. Family plays an important role throughout this book. The author manages to convey the fear, uncertainty and isolation of the people of Communist

The first time I laid my eyes on The Long March Home, a new novel by Zoe Roy, I thought it was about some sort of revolutionary movement in Tibet, as the cover bears the image of two women, dressed in Tibetan-style clothing, being denounced in public with a few indignant fists thrusting around them. As I read on, I started to realise that this novel has nothing to do with either Tibet or Tibetans, and the choice of the cover is simply a mistake by the designer who probably has limited knowledge

Excellent, moving, informative of the time.

A feminist historical fiction centering on the Chinese cultural revolution (1966-1976), The Long March Home reflects the lives and longings of three generations of women who have been or will become transnational migrants. Central characters include a Canadian-American matriarch, Agnes, her American-Chinese daughter, Meihua (translated as either America-China, Mayflora, or, Mayflower), and Meihua's Chinese daughter, Yezi (meaning green leaf, symbolizing new life). Circumstances for this family

Title: The Long March HomeAuthor: Zoe S. RoyPages: 270Year: 2011Publisher: Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Zoe Roy has written a very poignant novel with The Long March Home. Set during the Cultural Revolution in China for the most part, this story is very realistic and thought-provoking. It was so easy during this time to be misunderstood, and then accused, thinks one of the main characters, Meihua. The author herself lived under the late Mao Zedongs rule and therefore has a lot of