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Once Upon A Time in the East Volleyball confined to a mental asylumA memoir of growing up in modern China from the Orange shortlisted and Granta Best Young British Novelist. *Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award* *Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize* *Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018* *A Sunday Times Book of the Year* Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in 1973, her