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HTML:Looking to reconnect with their ancestral home and with one another, three generations of women tour mainland China on a journey that will change their family forever.
A stunning debut, A Thread of Sky is the story of a family of women and the powerful thread that binds their lives. In following the paths chosen by six fiercely independent women, A Thread of Sky explores the terrain we must travel to recognize the strength and vulnerability of those closest to us.
When her husband of thirty years is killed in a devastating accident, Irene Shen and her three daughters are set adrift. Nora, the eldest, retreats into her high-powered New York job and a troubled relationship. Kay, the headstrong middle child, escapes to China to learn the language and heritage of her parents. Sophie, the sensitive and artistic youngest, is trapped at home until college, increasingly estranged from her family-and herself. Terrified of being left alone with her grief, Irene plans a tour of mainland China's must sees, reuniting three generations of women-her three daughters, her distant poet sister, and her formidable eighty-year-old mother-in a desperate attempt to heal her fractured family.
If only it was so easy. Each woman arrives bearing secrets big and small, and as they travel-visiting untouched sections of the Great Wall and the seedy bars of Shanghai, the beautiful ancient temples and cold, modern shopping emporiums-they begin to wonder if they will ever find the China they seek, the one their family fled long ago.
Over days and miles they slowly find their way toward a new understanding of themselves, of one another, and of the vast complexity of their homeland, only to have their new bonds tested as never before when the darkest, most carefully guarded secret of all tumbles to the surface and threatens to tear their family apart forever. A Thread of Sky is a beautifully written and deeply haunting story about love and sacrifice, history and memory, sisterhood and motherhood, and the connections that endure.… (más)
terran: Both books deal with an immigrant family and their struggles to integrate into American society. Travel to China to meet Chinese relatives opens the eyes of the younger generation to family history and the struggles of the Chinese people past and present. They also learn more about parents and grandparents.… (más)
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I have looked forward to this book for a long time but I struggled to get through it. One reason was that my edition had tiny print and my eyesight is. Also, I felt that when the author switched time and place, I need more transition. Also, I was hoping for more character development. I did really like the character Sophie, the granddaughter who was struggling with bulima. Not fitting the stereotype of a thin, petite Chinese-American woman, she did not feel comfortable with her curves.
This book is focused on three generations, a grandmother, two daughters and one of their three granddaughters. The men in the book had marginal importance. All of the women had secrets that they did not reveal to any of their family. They take a tour of China together for two weeks in China. They really did not want to go, except for one the daughters, Nora. Nora wanted the trip bind their family together. Eventually, that goal did more forward in understanding but the secrets stood as barriers, it was extremely difficult to disclose them. The biggest secret of all was revealed not by the person who had it but by her husband.
I think the book could have been improved with editing and more deepth in the characters.
I hope that author does not get discouraged and continues to write further. The book is very ambitious but I hope that the auther takes one simpler themes. ( )
A very compelling story...and a very good read. The characters were well developed. And the historical contexts both in the US and in China were solid. Not a rehashed story of some Asian-Americans visiting the ancestry home and not Orientalia that has been prevalent for some Occidentalized readers.
For West Coast ABCs, this was definitely written by an East Coast ABC. ( )
Absolutely fantastic. Her descriptions of things--like falling--were amazing, and so accurate. I've heard many books described as lyrical, but never knew exactly what was meant until I read this. ( )
This was a glimpse into the relationships among the members of a Chinese American family. Three generations travel to China to visit relatives and discover things about themselves and others that change the way they will see each other in the future. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For my parents, Mimi Wen-Pi and Donald Li-Tao Fei, who gave me everything
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Irene entered the new millennium alone, watching TV, waiting for the ball to drop -- an end, at last, to the buildup.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Her mother and sister, herself and her daughters -- they had all set out, in a way, to be astronomers. Focused on chasing the unattainable, on charting the unknowable, and forgetting what made them who they were, what gave meaning to their lives in the end -- the connections between them. It was time they all remembered.
Why were the two of them here at all? Six women, three generations, two sets of sisters -- for the mathematics, for the symbolism?
To Kay, the salient feature of China was suffering. Her efforts on behalf of this nation's downtrodden were noble, charitable, and misguided. She was only a visitor. A visitor to America would seek out the Empire State Building, the Grand Canyon, the Golden Gate Bridge. The essence of a country was in its highlights, not its lowest common denominator.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
And, just before they broke through a skin of cloud, how little lights strung all across the islands below shone in answer to the stars.
Fiction.
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HTML:Looking to reconnect with their ancestral home and with one another, three generations of women tour mainland China on a journey that will change their family forever.
A stunning debut, A Thread of Sky is the story of a family of women and the powerful thread that binds their lives. In following the paths chosen by six fiercely independent women, A Thread of Sky explores the terrain we must travel to recognize the strength and vulnerability of those closest to us.
When her husband of thirty years is killed in a devastating accident, Irene Shen and her three daughters are set adrift. Nora, the eldest, retreats into her high-powered New York job and a troubled relationship. Kay, the headstrong middle child, escapes to China to learn the language and heritage of her parents. Sophie, the sensitive and artistic youngest, is trapped at home until college, increasingly estranged from her family-and herself. Terrified of being left alone with her grief, Irene plans a tour of mainland China's must sees, reuniting three generations of women-her three daughters, her distant poet sister, and her formidable eighty-year-old mother-in a desperate attempt to heal her fractured family.
If only it was so easy. Each woman arrives bearing secrets big and small, and as they travel-visiting untouched sections of the Great Wall and the seedy bars of Shanghai, the beautiful ancient temples and cold, modern shopping emporiums-they begin to wonder if they will ever find the China they seek, the one their family fled long ago.
Over days and miles they slowly find their way toward a new understanding of themselves, of one another, and of the vast complexity of their homeland, only to have their new bonds tested as never before when the darkest, most carefully guarded secret of all tumbles to the surface and threatens to tear their family apart forever. A Thread of Sky is a beautifully written and deeply haunting story about love and sacrifice, history and memory, sisterhood and motherhood, and the connections that endure.
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This book is focused on three generations, a grandmother, two daughters and one of their three granddaughters. The men in the book had marginal importance. All of the women had secrets that they did not reveal to any of their family. They take a tour of China together for two weeks in China. They really did not want to go, except for one the daughters, Nora. Nora wanted the trip bind their family together. Eventually, that goal did more forward in understanding but the secrets stood as barriers, it was extremely difficult to disclose them. The biggest secret of all was revealed not by the person who had it but by her husband.
I think the book could have been improved with editing and more deepth in the characters.
I hope that author does not get discouraged and continues to write further. The book is very ambitious but I hope that the auther takes one simpler themes. (