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Zibby Mag, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and She Reads Most Anticipated Book of the Year “Grossman balances the social and political, the emotional and physical, with insight and precision. Her disparate characters all hail from different worlds, and it’s a horrific thrill to witness...

Following his breakdown and indiscriminate sacking of staff at his company, Carlow Mason's preoccupation with power and money ends when his beautiful investment broker wife, Laura, leaves him, and Geoff Mason, his business associate of 20 years, coerces him into applying himself and millions to the task of changing the system by which Britain is governed.

At once a coming-of-age tale and a heart-rending love story, Wild Ginger explores the devastating experience of the Cultural Revolution, which defined Anchee Min’s youth. The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when she is singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes". Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution. The novel chronicles the two girls’ maturing in Shanghai in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Chairman Mao ruled absolutely and his followers took up arms in his name.