The Red Sandals: A Memoir

by Jing Li

Book Overview

Her mother pushed a pinewood washboard against her belly trying to abort Jing Li. At two months old, Jing was left with her resentful peasant grandmother, who had a pair of three-inch bound feet, and had once thrown her own newborn daughter headfirst into the urine pot to drown because she wanted a boy.

Running free, playing alone in the wilderness of her remote, impoverished village in Shanxi Province, Northern China's pine forest mountains,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949534251
• ISBN13: 9781949534252
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Sand Hill Review Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"