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This book explains a lot about why people living below the middle class vote the way that they do. My only problem with the book is that it offers no solution to voting in ways that make no economic sense for the voters themselves.

I received an advance copy of this book through a Goodreads giveaway. Mei-Ling Hopgood's story is interesting -- an adopted, Chinese-born American girl who gets in touch with her Chinese birth family. Through this, she faces cultural barriers, discovers her place in both of her families (adopted and biological), and learns her birth family's secrets. I enjoyed reading about all of those things and following her journey. I particularly enjoyed seeing some elements of traditional Chinese culture through her eyes, and feeling her struggle with some of it. Three starts mostly because of the writing style. She is a journalist, and I felt like the book was written in that way; the writing sometimes seemed choppy to me, and I would have liked more 'flow' through the chapters and connecting the events in her life.

This book is the only book I have read three times. Lawrence is brillant. I especially love this book, as I feel it is his masterpiece in describing human relationships and all the emotion, frustration, loss, and compromise that encompasses them.