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Title: Emotionally satisfying
Review: I bought this book over a year ago, but just could not get into it. Both Kwan and Olivia were annoying to me, albeit in different ways. And the book seemed to be another Amy Tan rehash of the clash between first and second generation Chinese. I finally tried reading it again recently, and for some reason, I was swept away. You just have to get past the first 50 pages to be in sync with the story structure. This time, I loved the characters and their belief that loved ones don't die, they simply become part of another sensory world. As for Amy Tan writing the same old things again, I guess it's really not a fair criticism. John Grisham writes the same book over and over again. Sue Grafton only writes crime novels featuring the same character. So you can't very well expect Amy Tan to start writing science fiction, for example. Overall, then, it's a not a bad way to spend an evening.
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