The year is 1933, and seven-year-old Li Keng Wong's life is about to change forever. Her father, Baba, has decided to move his family from a small village in southern China to California. Now she, Ma
Presented from the point of view of the author from the ages of 7 to 15, Li Keng tells of her life in rural China, then of her trip from China to the United States with her family in 1933, detailing t