Spider Eaters A Memoir - Rae Yang

Spider Eaters Is At Once A Moving Personal Story, A Fascinating Family History, And A Unique Chronicle Of Political Upheaval Told By A Chinese Woman Who Came Of Age During The Turbulent Years Of The Cultural Revolution. With Stunning Honesty And A Lively, Sly Humor, Rae Yang Records Her Life From Her Early Years As The Daughter Of Chinese Diplomats In Switzerland, To Her Girlhood At An Elite Middle School In Beijing, To Her Adolescent Experience As A Red Guard And Later As A Laborer On A Pig Farm In The Remote Northern Wilderness. She Tells Of Her Eventual Disillusionment With The Maoist Revolution, How Remorse And Despair Nearly Drove Her To Suicide, And How She Struggled To Make Sense Of Conflicting Events That Often Blurred The Line Between Victim And Victimizer, Aristocrat And Peasant, Communist And Counter-revolutionary.