cover image CHINA'S SON: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution

CHINA'S SON: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution

Da Chen, . . Dell/Laurel-Leaf, $5.99 (213pp) ISBN 978-0-440-22926-1

Adapted from his adult memoir, Colors of the Mountain , this coming-of-age tale traces the author's boyhood in Maoist China as his family is stripped of property and cruelly treated. "Humor and unflinching honesty inform the narrative," wrote PW . Ages 12-up. (July)