Wild Ginger

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Love Anchee Min books and was pleased to find this one i had not read yet. Fast service so thanks

Verdict:Growing up in Maoist China, Maple, Wild Ginger, and a boy named Evergreen, become entangled in each other's lives, with consequences that none of them could have predicted.This is an absorbing three-way triangle, with an F/F element.Although this is about teenagers, it's not really YA - so don't make the mistake of placing it in that genre.Potentially distressing content in this book includes: suicide, self-harm, sexual assault, attempted rape, grief, xenophobia, internalised xenophobia, oppression, torture, capital punishment.There're also some awkward sex scenes.My one big downer on this book is that the perpetrator of the sexual assault and attempted rape isn't punished or blamed, and basically is treated the same way is he was before. And that's not OK.Overall though? Wild Ginger is absorbing, complex, and exceedingly well-written.This review originally appeared on my blog.

This book starts poorly however very quickly ramps up, I'd say it is very moving in parts it is almost a coming of age story bit set against the Chinese revolution. Some of the taboos and the backdrop which it is set about seem incredibly realistic and heart wretching in feelings.

This book is fantastic, I could not put it down!Although historically remarkable, intensely moving and erotic, at heart this book is based on the friendship between two girls, Wild Ginger and Maple. Set agianst the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution this book describes in detail what life in china was like whilst Chairman Mao was in power and how none-Mao supporters were diciplined & executed. It really is a heart-wrenching tail of a girls battle for survival and her desire to be accepted. From war to intense bullying in a time where sexual relations are forbidden, both Maple and Wild Ginger fall for the same man, Evergreen. Wild Ginger denies her desire for him but Maple has other ideas! When Maple and Evergreen decide to take off together, Maple (...and the reader!) underestimate Wild Ginger's feelings and what she will do to stop them....!