SCAVENGERS DAUGHTER SERIES

I have all three ebooks in this series but thought it would be interesting to start the series with the audio version. THE SCAVENGER'S DAUGHTERS, narrated beautifully by Will Damron, was a great Audible listen. His pride may be the undoing of the family he's worked so hard to protect. Benfu's bitter resentment causes him to make decisions that are not always in the best interest of his loved ones. The communist revolution of Mao Zedong stole young Benfu's life, changing him forever. Understandably, Benfu is resentful and angry at the government that betrayed him as a young man. It's no mistake that Bratt chooses this profession for Benfu and the meaning behind this decision is not lost on me. Along the way, he has also rescued discarded and orphaned girls that have been thrown away like yesterday's garbage. Benfu collects and sells other's unwanted trash. Having cut ties with his privileged past, Benfu spends his days scavenging. His golden years (should they be called that?) are much different than those of his youth, when things came to him easily as the son of wealthy, respectable parents. While that story centers around a young Benfu, Bratt begins the TALES OF THE SCAVENGER'S DAUGHTERS series with an older, much wiser Benfu. THE PALEST INK was one of my favorite reads last year. Also gave an excellent background in the Chinese Cultural Revolution under the cruel and crazy dictator Mao Tze Tun! I will NEVER EVER UNDERSTAND how or why people fall for or follow the ideology of Communism!?! To keep our Freedoms at Any Cost is something we should all be willing to fight for until our last breath! For the education alone, this book was worthy of 5 stars and should be Mandatory Reading for All High School and College World History and Social Studies Students! As it is a beautiful, entertaining way to enlighten students as to some of what happened in China, and to become more compassionate and appreciative individuals. I loved it! So heart warming, touching, and reminds the reader of what is truly important in this crazy world. He came through tremendous adversity and lives barely above the level of poverty, but he is RICH! And so is this tale. In a way, I feel unable to truly judge The Scavenger’s Daughter on its own until I see Four Sisters, the final chapter, set 259 years later on the same land, which will premiere at the Luminato Festival later this year.A beautifully written and preformed story of a Chinese man who is one of the most selfless, generous, loving, individuals I have had the opportunity to learn of. There are some connections to The Philosopher’s Wife, Fournier’s first show in the Empire Trilogy set a generation earlier, which I won’t spoil for those on the overall journey.

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Toxic masculinity is on full display, but their humanity is too hidden. While Gonzalez-Vio, Stanton and Wylie’s performances are more vivid, I wasn’t compelled by the relationships among the men, either. It’s difficult given Brown and Johnston’s somewhat blank characterizations to figure out how they really feel about each other – and care about whether they’re together or apart. But this process of disintegration takes place at an emotional remove. The camp is being starved, the soldiers are in withdrawal – and more than one seems to be going mad. The reasons for war change, but the underlying forces are the same, she seems to say her own war as a playwright seems to be against the tyranny of reason altogether.ĭirector Ted Witzel and his scenographer Michelle Tracey have created a sprawling, evocative set to house Fournier’s strange but familiar world.

In these, Fournier mashes up famous essays and speeches so that Rousseau and Marx sit side by side in the same sentence, or words from the Declaration of Independence saddle up next to ones from the George W. (He seems a nod to the cook in a famous anti-war play, Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children.)įrequent “dispatches' spoken by all the actors as a chorus, clutching microphones that descend from the ceiling, give us poetic propaganda from the righteous war being waged in the name of the King beyond the camp walls. Rounding out the characters is a disfigured cook known only as Cook (the comical Christopher Stanton), who believes in keeping his head down and kowtowing to power.

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