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(More customer reviews)Not since the books "Joy Luck Club" or "Last Emperor" has there been a book more captivating than "90 degrees of Separation". In this book, the Author not only illustrated the harsh realities during the Cultural Revolution but also showed how some survived these tragic times. The main characters in this book demonstrated their incredible ability and determination to endure the oppression set forth before them and in the end triumph over their own lives. The book was truly hard to put down because it had all the workings of a riveting fiction, dealing with love, sex, money, and power from the pre-communist to the post-revolution eras of China.
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Trapped between love and lust, Sue-Ling flees Beijing, taking one daughter, Jay-Ann, with her to Hong Kong, and leaving the younger one, Jay-May, behind. Jay-Ann, beautiful yet headstrong, is a prisoner to vanity. She craves undiluted love, but has to share her mother's attention with her sister, who is like a phantom that keeps taking things away from her, but she has no way to fight back. In contrast, Jay-May is timid and sweet, growing up in Beijing with her grandma and a neighbor boy named Ming-Wei. When the Culture Revolution comes, they are scattered like chaff in a strong wind. From Beijing to Inner Mongolia, from Hong Kong to California, Jay-Ann, Jay-May and Ming-Wei brave pain and suffering in this troublesome age and emerge altered yet stronger. They are like lines separated by 90 degrees. No matter how far away they are from each other, their roots always join together at the base. Above all, a love endures tribulation and blossoms into something more powerful than death.
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