A Hundred Flowers

Lovely story about a family living directly after Chairman Mao's 100 Flowers campaign, but I would have enjoyed about 100 more pages fleshing out several of the characters and their stories.

While I loved all the characters and the progression the ending of the book just kind of left me wanting more! Maybe because I wasn't quite ready to leave them and wanted to see how they would do later on down the line. When does Sheng get to come home? And what the hell with Suyin?! I mean it's great that she had a safe place to raise her baby, but at all that loss....

I guess I just wanted more closure, which sounds silly, but this books seemed to be just a glimpse into their lives and I wanted it to be some epic, sweeping novel about their WHOLE lives. sigh