“Really Enough,” by Margaret Zhao and Kathleen Martens, is a riveting memoir about Zhao’s childhood in mainland China, during the Chinese revolution.
In this brilliant autobiography, we witness the story of an innocent young girl whose familial wealth and scholarly ancestry makes her and her family “Enemies of the State” and a target for persecution from Mao Zedong’s followers.
Instead of submitting to the powers that be, the spirited young Zhao struggles against shocking oppression and poverty to preserve her family’s honorable legacy, follow her own dreams, and on top of all that, fight for her forbidden romance with a “foreign devil.” Through it all, she preserves her humor, courage, and hope – a seemingly impossible feat.
This is a story that will make the reader laugh, cry, shudder, and sigh. And when you close the cover, you will find yourself a more compassionate, more grateful, more hopeful person, thanks to the amazing true tale that you had just read.
the book won the 2012 Sharp Writ Book Award in the memoir category.
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