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Rather MEH for me.It's a very slow novel about being rural poor in 1970s China with an absurd amount detail about little things that I didn't care much about. It also has real problems with massive amounts of exposition and exceptionally slow pacing.If you can get past the writing problems, you wind up with a slow novel that as of half way through doesn't seem to be going anywhere.Bottom line, I really wanted to like this but it disappoints.