My China - Kylie Kwong

My China by Kylie Kwong is a story about an author going back to to where her great grandfather lived until 1875 then, when he was 25, moved to Australia because of the promise of gold.  During his time in Australia he made many forged business connections to go back and forth to china to secure a futures for his family. Now over 120 years later the Kwong family has over 1200 people in his family and over 5 generations.
The story is full of descriptive language to describe what it is like to in the village and everything that she does "As I make my way through the village, it buzzes with life: mottled chickens peck at the ground, twitchy-eared dogs sniff the air and stare at us: farmers steer water buffalo through the lush, green rice paddies; worn and weathered wooden wheelbarrows lie by the side of the fields; ducks glide through the murky waters" and it keeps going on like that until the next page. This does not usually happen in many books, they way she describes everything that she does and how she feels about everything really gives the reader an idea in to what is really happening and how she perceives things 
As Kylie is walking through the town she finds her great grandfathers house which is over 130 years old and as she is walking along side it she runs her hand along hoping to feel a little bit of her great grandfathers spirit. when she does she is overwhelmed by the feeling that she really belongs soemwhere "on the wall is the Kwong family seal - I am overwhelmed by the feeling that i really belong somewhere