China Homecoming, Jean Fritz
China Homecoming, Jean Fritz
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China Homecoming

Author: Jean Fritz

Narrator: Susan Boyce

Unabridged: 3 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2013

Synopsis

China Homecoming is the sequel to Jean Fritz's Newbery Honor book Homesick: My Own Story. As a grown woman, Jean returned to China where she was born and lived until she was thirteen.Speaking Chinese, Jean felt welcome when she revisited China. Memories of her childhood washed over her as she visited her old home and the British School she had attended. Both had changed just as history had changed her hometown of Wuhan, but listeners will be moved at what it meant to Jean when she was declared an honorary citizen.

About Jean Fritz

Jean Fritz, the Newbery Honor-winning author of Homesick, is best known for her engaging and enlightening nonfiction for young readers, including What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?, And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, and Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution. She was honored with the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature by the New York State Library Association and won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her career contribution to American children’s literature.

About Susan Boyce

Susan Boyce is an award-winning audiobook narrator. She has recorded over ninety audiobooks in a variety of categories, and her talents have been put to work by industry giants such as Amica, Hasbro, and Mattel. She earned a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Rhode Island in 1979 and has worked on-stage at Trinity Repertory Theatre, Worcester Foothills Theatre, The Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, and every major Ragtime and Traditional Jazz Festival in the United States.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shawn

Jean Fritz’s return to the Hankou, China after so many years away. If you wondered “what happened next” when finishing Homesick: My Own Story, China Homecoming can fill in some of those pieces. When this was published in 1985, China was just becoming a tourist destination for Americans; it had jus......more

Goodreads review by Ruby

This does not really have the impact of a book, but it is a nice little coda to the wonderful Homesick. Good pictures!......more

Quotes

“Narrator Susan Boyce assumes the voice of the author in this concise, enlightening memoir about the author’s return to her childhood home in China…Her clear reading and modulated tones capture the author’s diverse emotions—from the hardship of leaving her birth country at age thirteen and her difficulties in feeling American to her longing, disappointment, and joy at her return to her native country. Boyce’s dynamic reading also conveys the significance of many of China’s historical events and cultural practices.” AudioFile

“Jean Fritz’s respect and deep affection for China, its people, and culture is evident throughout this fascinating, highly readable journey…A book to be read and reread.” School Library Journal (starred review)

“An intriguing fusion of autobiography, history, and travelogue…A vivid portrait of a developing nation, and a reminder that history is people who live through events and then go on.” Booklist

Awards

  • ALA Notable Book
  • School Library Journal Best Book
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