{"product_id":"our-story-9781101871492","title":"Our Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBegun by the author when he was eighty-seven years old and mourning the loss of his wife, \u003ci\u003eOur Story\u003c\/i\u003e is a graphic memoir like no other: a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRao Pingru was twenty-four-year-old soldier when he was reintroduced to Mao Meitang, a girl he’d known in childhood and now the woman his father had arranged for him to marry. One glimpse of her through a window as she put on lipstick was enough to capture Pingru’s heart: a moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur Story is Pingru and Meitang’s epic but unassuming romance. It follows the couple through the decades, in both poverty and good fortune—looking for work, opening a restaurant, moving cities, mending shoes, raising their children, and being separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. As the pair ag","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528790090071,"sku":"9781101871492","price":21.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781101871492.jpg?v=1731873015","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-story-9781101871492","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}