“The House Filler” is a harrowing novel that recounts a young woman’s survival and endurance in early 20th-century China. This first book in the “China China Trilogy” from new Canadian writer Tong Ge details in a simple yet richly textured fashion the life of an unwanted young woman in pre- and post-revolutionary China.
The resilient heroine of “The House Filler” is Golden Phoenix, an apt name for someone who continually faces potentially life-destroying events, yet manages to pull herself from the ashes and survive.
