I love LOVE this book, and I love Amy Tan. And maybe this review is a bit of a cheat, because I've read this book before, but I was re-reading it this week and I enjoyed it all over again, and I haven't shared it with you guys before. Published back in 1989, it's Tan's …
Pearl and her mother Winnie have a difficult relationship, which has only grown worse since Pearl's father died years ago. But when Winnie's friend Helen thinks that she might have an uncurable illness, she forces Winnie to talk to her daughter about the secrets of their previous life in China in the 1930's. The biggest …
After growing up in a famous house of courtesans, run by her mother, a young American-Chinese girl is kidnapped and her virginity put up for sale, changing the course of her life forever. This book by Amy Tan is about the life of the Shanghai courtesan at the turn of the century, about the nature …
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