LitPick Review
When CC falls off a building in a crowded marketplace, she
injures her head. She spends time in the hospital
recovering from her injury. There are a couple of things
that CC does not understand, however. Why is she suffering
from headaches and bad dreams? And why is an ancient
painting in a book so familiar to her? Through hypnosis, CC
learns about another girl in another time. Zhang Mei Lan
spends a lot of time with her brother and close friend and
servant, Ah Zao. She loves to write, Gege-her older
brother-and Ah Zao love to paint. She learns of their life,
of the fame Gege and Ah Zao experience and the drawbacks
that come with it. Along the River is a story of time, past
and future lives, family and love. Who is Zhang Mei Lan?
Is she CC in another life? After all, as Ah Zao says you
he bu ke? Is anything possible?
Opinion:
Along the River is a good book if a reader is looking for an easy read. It is a fun, fairly lighthearted story and one can put it down and
then come back to it with very little difficulty. One thing
that may add to the difficulty of the reading of this book,
however, is the fact that Adeline Yen Mah intersperses
Chinese words (and their translations) throughout the book.
This makes the story a little choppy to read.
