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Reviewed on October 1, 2014 | Grades 9 and Up
Gr 10 Up—Eighteen-year-old Gu Bao is a law student at Nanjing University in the summer of 1989, during the Tiananmen Square protests and the ensuing political unrest. Despite the school's strict rules against dating and sex, Bao and her boyfriend Tong decide to sleep together. Bao becomes pregnant and is promptly taken to her grandparents' remote village for an abortion. While seeking solace in the woods to mourn the loss of her unbo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More