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Catherine C. Wu
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The Moon Goddess's Smile
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"So Many Stories
This was an interesting read for me as my mother-in-law grew up in Shanghai and experienced the Japanese invasion. It helped me to understand what she went through. This was a fascinating window into Chinese culture. " Read more of this review » |
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"Absolutely soul-changing! "The Moon Goddess’s Smile" entrances you till the end. I was completely absorbed into this book as we meet our narrator, Mei, a Chinese-born American middle-aged woman married to a laowai husband and with two kids (twins) on"
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"Told in a delightful, amusing, extremely winning narrative voice, The Moon Goddess’s Smile is a madcap journey through both geography and memory with a serious quest at its core: the struggle to preserve one’s family in the face of cultural differenc"
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Thank you, Erie, for your thoughtful review. I'm so glad you enjoyed reading my debut. Currently, I'm working on part 2 of this trilogy, (with a worki
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Two thumbs up! I plan to reread it in a month or so to see if the magic is still there. Tommy Orange is one of my favorite contemporary writers. I was impressed by his debut There, There. This book is even better: it reminds me of the type of Bordeau ...more |
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“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
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“Why were we expected to speak English perfectly while praising Americans for even the clumsiest dribble of Chinese?”
― Beautiful Country
― Beautiful Country
“I put these stories to paper for this country's forgotten children, past and present, who grow up cloaked in fear, desolation, and the belief that their very existence is wrong, their very being illegal. I have been unfathomably lucky. But I dream of a day when being recognized as human requires no luck -- when it is a right, not a privilege. And I dream of a day when each and every one of us will have no reason to fear stepping out of the shadows.”
― Beautiful Country
― Beautiful Country
“There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a bookstore, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his best. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
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