Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

"The reader desperately wants to rush forward, as if it were a thriller. There were times when I almost forgot to breathe... the very best kind of nonfiction."  … more

"Demick has written with impeccable empathy for everyone involved, Chinese and western.... She captures the essence of rural Chinese society in a way few western observers have done."… more

Excellent...entrancing and disturbing... [Barbara Demick] is one of our finest chroniclers of East Asia. She hammers together strong, solid sentence after strong, solid sentence — until the grandeur of the architecture comes into focus. Demick’s characters are richly drawn, and her stories, often re… more