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The Natural Laws Of Good Luck: A Memoir Of An Unlikely Marriage (2009)

by Ellen Graf(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1590306910 (ISBN13: 9781590306918)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Trumpeter

review 1: After a brief courtship, an American artist marries a Chinese businessman who joins her out in the country with his sullen teen daughter in this memoir. I think she strives to be eccentric and spontaneous, and wanted this to read as a generous and loving account of culture clashes. Indeed, the cultural gaps are profound. The narrator is a disorganized writer. The disasters read as more tragic than comic, yet I could not avert my eyes from the wreckage.
review 2: this is an entertaining and enriching story about the challenges that sometimes arise within cross-cultural marriages. Ellen Graf's chinese husband, Zhaing Hou (? can't remember spelling) is an endearing and excruciatingly annoying character who meets the challenges of living in America as if he were no... moret here at all but still in China growing up under Mao. I lived with a chinese man several years older than Zhiang Hou and can attest to some of the often overwhelming and exasperating differences between our cultures - things I often wanted to scream at Lin about, as I imagine Ellen wanted to do with Zhiang... 'Hey, you're living here now!!! Get with it!! We don't do things 'that' way!!' - but how can one possibly be any different when one has grown up in a world according to Mao?We, O-Spoiled-Westerners, cannot begin to fathom what it must have been like to live in China during that era. Wow, WHAT a period in history!! less

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