At the opening of Chinese-American author Geling Yan¡¯s best-selling novel ¡°Little Aunt Crane,¡± a 16-year-old girl by the name of Tatsuru, or ¡°Crane,¡± escapes a mass suicide that Japanese elders in a Manchurian village order to preserve their honor. The young girl¡¯s problems, however, have only just begun.
Little Aunt Crane, by Geling Yan
400 pages
Harvill Secker, Fiction.
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