Carolyn See Newsday Wild Swans is riveting. It's blindingly good: a mad adventure story, a fairy tale of courage, and a tale of atrocities. You can't, as they say, put it down.
The New Yorker Her family chronicle resembles a popular novel that stars strong, beautiful women and provides cameo roles for famous men....But Wild Swans is no romance. It's a story...about the survival of a Chinese family through a century of disaster.
Time A mesmerizing memoir.
"An inspiring tale of women who survived every kind of hardship, deprivation and political upheaval with their humanity intact." Hillary Clinton, O, The Oprah Magazine
"An inspiring tale of women who survived every kind of hardship, deprivation and political upheaval with their humanity intact." Hillary Clinton, O, The Oprah Magazine