![]() ![]() Although she can always sell it if they run out of money or food, it also serves as entertainment for young Renshu when they’re on the run. He had been killed in action and it’s in his memory that she includes this scroll in the few belongings she carries. As Meilin prepares to leave, she packs an antique scroll her late husband had given her. This is the backdrop of Melissa Fu’s debut novel, Peach Blossom Spring. Army jeeps weave through the masses, headed against the flow, towards the burning city. ![]() And there are some who escaped with only their nightclothes and whatever they could grab. Many people are on foot, balancing shoulder poles with hastily packed and overflowing baskets. Some in carts, some in wagons filled with families, furniture, pots, sacks of grain. The roads are filling as others flee the blaze. But first Meilin and her four-year-old son Renshu must escape in one piece. As the Japanese advance through China in 1938, a young widowed mother aims to flee her Changsha home in 1938 for the relative safety of the newly-established capital of Chongqing. ![]()
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