RaveThe Los Angeles Review of Books...a masterfully crafted collection of interwoven portraits of six young Chinese ... through the telling of these six stories, Ash cleverly weaves information about demographics, government policies, political history, as well as social and cultural trends ... If there is a frustration with the book and its gaggle of characters, it’s my desire for at least one of them to tap into the riskier territory of dissent ... The richness of Ash’s book is in the character development, the details of everyday life, dreams, frustrations, and contradictions of these particular individuals. Ash enters their worlds as a peer (he is their same age) and he’s a sensitive listener, reporter, and storyteller.
