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Title: It's all the same!
Review: How many times can Amy Tan write the same story? I've read Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, and the beginning and end of this one. The themes are all the same: female Chinese Americans coming to terms with their identities through a female relative. It made for ONE interesting, well-written story, but it stretched pretty thin over three novels. Also, isn't anyone else concerned that all the characters grew up in San Francisco, but never encountered black or Latino people? Shouldn't it happen in at least one of the books? Never mind, make that one book.
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