$8 · 2 books: A Civil Action; Wild Swans

Both paperback novels for $8.00. A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr: is a 1995 non-fiction book about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s. The book became a best-seller. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Made into a motion picture starring John Travolta. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang: is a family history that spans a century, recounting the lives of three female generations in China, by Chinese writer Jung Chang. Wild Swans contains the biographies of her grandmother and her mother, then finally her own autobiography. Her grandmother had bound feet and was married off at a young age as the concubine of a high-status warlord. Chang's mother rose in status as a member of the Communist Party. Chang took part in the Cultural Revolution as a member of the Red Guards, but eventually her father was tortured and she was sent to the countryside for thought reform. Later, she earned a scholarship to study in England, where she still lives.