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Publishers Weekly called it a "robust book" and wrote "this is a powerful collection that should enthrall readers of The Joy Luck Club and Tan's other novels." [1] Kirkus Reviews wrote "her prose is thoughtful, never maudlin or self-pitying. Tan writes as easily and unpretentiously about herself as about others."
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. [1]
The book received critical acclaim, with Mel Watkins in The New York Times Book Review stating it was "a complex, scathing and often brilliant depiction of the disintegration of a black couple’s relationship," and that it "was among the first fictional works by a black woman to focus directly on the theme of the sometimes bitter antagonism ...
In light of NFL veteran Michael Oher's allegation that the heroes of 'The Blind Side' exploited him, Steve Almond's review of the 2006 Michael Lewis book resonates.
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The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts: A Tale of Real Life by Caroline Rush (1852) The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina by Mary Howard Schoolcraft (1860) Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is: Being Narratives, Scenes, and Incidents in the Real "Life of the Lowly" by W. L. G. Smith (1852)
Depiction of the book of life. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam ( Angels) the Book of Life (Biblical Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliterated Sefer HaḤayyim; Ancient Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς, romanized: Biblíon tēs Zōēs Arabic: سفر الحياة, romanized: Sifr al-Ḥayā) is an alleged book in which God records, or will record, the names of every person who is ...
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