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Review title: bad writing
Product review: It's probably good for stories like this about Korean immigrant grandmothers to be available, but I wish the writing had been better! It's somehow too linear, and it's hard to get a real sense of the characters. Yes, the grandmother is "a strong woman." What else is new? The book would have been much better if she had been made complex, with some kind of inner life. She just leaves the baby in the snow, period. She just hates Communists, period. She just becomes a devout Christian, period. And the sandwich bread arrangement with the "Americanized" granddaughter bopping around at the beginning and chastened into a "good Korean" at the end - whew! Pretty maudlin.
