Memories of an Eastern Sky is an intriguing original fiction based on a true story that chronicles the extraordinary and disturbing life experiences of the main character. Born into a loving family in the freezing, lawless, and foreboding part of the Communist China, the main character quickly learns of the crushing power the government wielded. His father suspected of being counterrevolutionary, and the family makes the courageous decision to not succumb to the nefarious will of the ten-year Cultural Revolution that will eventually claim over thirty million innocent lives.