Wild Ginger- Andy Aranyosi

I'm about half way though the book and I'm starting to find it less and less appealing maybe because its getting closer and closer to the end of the year, are the sudden perspective change of the character Wild Ginger. After competing in the Mao quot contest and gains power against hot pepper and her gang. When wild ginger and maple stop a robbery from occurring wild ginger says that she learned this from Mao's teachings but when Maple says nothing that relates her to Mao Wild Ginger is then accepted by the red guard and there soldiers. leaving
maple to then fend for herself which is not the way Mao would have taught her, Mao wouldn't have left a friend alone to fend for herself wile he prospered.