The Dark Road: A Novel

from sarahlizfits

I received an Advance Reader's copy as a Goodreads First Reads giveaway. I attribute some of the odd formatting and the couple of typos I saw to the ARC, not the finished book. This book is a fictional account of a peasant couple in China and their struggles to make a family under the One Child P...

from kakadoo202

haunting. this story gives you goose bumps. scrary, how people treat eachother for money, for political reason, for idealism, for traditions, for superstitions. the western world has not many reports on how china monitors their one-child law and it just horrifing how it is done. a woman with only...

from LynleyS

I've had to read this book one chapter at a time - the subject material and the setting is just too upsetting, and I've learnt my lesson from reading other books about the maltreatment of humans, especially women, in other times and other places. To focus on less disturbing matters, the structure...