Title: Bittersweet
Description: The 100-year odyssey of Bittersweet, a headstrong peasant woman who rises from poverty in the last days of the warlords, endures abandonment, patriarchy, and revolution in the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. Inspired by the lives of the author's grandfather and grandmother.
Subjects: Fiction, History, China, fiction, Fiction, general
Places: China
Time periods: 20th century