Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
by Christina
Fiction – Kindle edition. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. 474 pgs. Purchased. Marie’s father committed suicide in Hong Kong in the days after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre — duel sins referred to only in hushed tones. Ten-year-old Marie is unsure how she is supposed to grieve for the father than abandoned her and her mother back in Vancouver months before the protests were brutally ended. And her distance from mainland China leaves her unsure as to why her father […]
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