Accolades:

Chicago Tribune bestseller, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller

Reviews:

"This is Min's first book, but few seasoned writers can convey the uneven terrain of the human heart as well as she has—A book of deep honesty and morality[a] remarkable story."
—Chicago Sun-Times

"Compelling." 
—Glamour

"Vast, incredible—her amazing prose pulses like a heartbeat through every page—grim and surreal."
—Entertainment Weekly

"Harrowing tales of life under totalitarianism have been published before, but Anchee Min's Red Azalea the story of a young girl coming of age in thrall to Maoism ranks as one of the most memorable."
—Newsweek

"Part of it reads like raw testimony, part of it reads like epic drama, and part of it reads like poetic incantation."
—New York Times

"Unparalleled deptha major contribution to the subject of coming of age during Chinas cultural revolution."
—Library Journal

"A distinct and moving voice speaking out of a cauldron of history."
—Los Angeles Times

"No Chinese, much less a Chinese woman, has written more honestly and poignantly than Anchee Min about the desert of solitude and human alienation at the center of the Chinese Communist revolutiontruly universal relevance and appeal."
—Vogue