The Visiting Suit (Out of Print)

ABOUT This book is now out of print. "These stories personify the compassion, humor, and dignity inherent not just in survival but in triumphing over despair."—O, The Oprah Magazine SynopsisThe Visiting Suit chronicles Xiao’s arrest through his release from the labor prison five years later, for the crime of tearing a poster of Chairman Mao while inebriated. Several months later, Xiao was arrested in order to fulfill an absurd quota and, without trial, declared a counterrevolutionary. He was sent to a labor prison on an island in Taihu Lake, where he worked in a stone quarry. The Visiting Suit by Xiaoda Xiao = * In most cases, none of these writers endorse this book. Our math formulas are supposed to be amusing anecdotes, similar to shelf-talkers in bookstores that say "If you like X, you might enjoy Y," or "This Book is like Cormac McCarthy writing an episode of Saved by the Bell with a soundtrack by Philip Glass." Reviews "Xiao's literary accompishment [is that] after several