Books by Amy Tan
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review 1: I have always loved Amy Tan's work but this one felt different. . . and disappointing. Themes of mother and daughters, separation and misfortune. A LOT of detail about the courtesan life in Shanghai in the early 20th century- really, too much, that it felt at times almost like ...
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review 1: I struggled with whether I liked this book. I disliked the main character (with her inability to forgive her mother even when she went through the same thing), hated the nonstop details about sexual exploits in and out of the courtesan life and wished I could have edited it down ...
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review 1: If it was the Korean immigrant father who was the source of the tension in Katherine Min's "Courting a Monk," here it is the Chinese immigrant mother. Both were written from the point of view of the Americanized daughters, but I rate this lower because the narrator did not at all...