I enjoyed this book and the movie. Tricked my husband into watching the movie because he was in trouble. After 2 hours of women crying, babies dying, couples fighting and it's nowhere near done, he yelled out "How long is this movie?" Loved it! The book and the movie are very similar.
I can honestly say that I really loved this book, even though it was a requirement for one of my college courses and I also chose to read part of it in my 9th grade lit class. I think overall I read it about three times since I had to write a few papers for it and a project in 9th. The writing is wo...
This is the story of Chinese mothers and their daughters. All the mothers originally immigrated from China, and all have faced hardships and challenges, which have made them stronger and wish for something better for their American daughters while instilling in them Chinese values, but their daughte...
it was okay... the writing style was good and everything, and it was interesting. but i totally got all the characters mixed up (i had to keep referring to the little guide in the front of the book), and i felt like it was a little TOO depressing and dramatic. there was barely a single happy moment ...
I don't know... Part of me loved the different anecdotes told, and how the different stories fit together, but another part of me was a bit disappointed. Not because it was a bad book in any shape or form - not at all - it was just very different from what I had expected. I think I'll like it more a...
I love the intertwining of the mothers' stories with the daughters', the historical appearing in the contemporary. It fills the same place in my reading heart that [b:The Shell Seekers|37095|The Shell Seekers|Rosamunde Pilcher|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513G66367YL._SL75_.jpg|517040] doe...
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