Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.7
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43520
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.022059
Description
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois", and people of laughter.