But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.
Amy TanI read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
Amy Tan