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A great collection of short stories, almost all of them unsettled me - particularly the last one.
There are many faces of China here, people who stayed, people who left, a younger generation disconnected from the older ones, people feeling trapped or incomplete in both rural and urban settings. As Chen was a journalist here, she has this wide purview that gives these stories realism - but there is also a little fantasy in some.