Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC : Made available through hoopla, 2012
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 07 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781611209259 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT10023893, 16112092511 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 10023893
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Adam Verner
In 1973, when Wenguang Huang was eight, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she appealed to her family to promise to bury her after she'd died. This was in Xi'an, a city in central China, at a time when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But his grandmother was persistent, and over the next fifteen years, the whole family was consumed with planning Grandma's burial, a source of friction and contention
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