![]() ![]() Spanning continents and generations, Peach Blossom Spring is a bold and moving look at the history of modern China, told through the story of one family. Peach Blossom Spring unrolls just as beautifully as the scroll Meilin owns. She considers what makes us who we are, what the nature of family really means and how we can carry or set down the burden of the past as we live in the present. ![]() How can he keep his family safe in this new land when the weight of his history threatens to drag them down? Yet how can Lily learn who she is if she can never know her family's story? Melissa Fu explores what it means to be fractured from your cultural identity. Though his daughter is desperate to understand her heritage, he refuses to talk about his childhood. Years later, Renshu has settled in America as Henry Dao. Relying on little but their wits and a beautifully illustrated hand scroll, filled with ancient fables that offer solace and wisdom, they must travel through a ravaged country, seeking refuge. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu, are forced to flee their home. It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin's future is bright. "Within every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune, and so it goes, until the end of time." Peach Blossom Spring shows just how much the human heart can hold, and it left me breathless.' Susie Yang, author of White Ivy. ![]()
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