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“Falling in love with a foreign culture can be a tempting love affair: one that gives you a chance to escape yourself and the constraints of your own upbringing. But when it goes wrong, it goes really wrong, as Susan Blumberg-Kason’s gripping memoir amply illustrates. Her Chinese Prince Charming turns out to be anything but, the cross-cultural confusions magnified by his instability, and Susan must discover who she really is to find the strength to protect her son — and herself. GOOD CHINESE WIFE is a refreshing, painfully honest look at what happens when the mask of romance, both cultural and personal, is dropped, revealing the stranger beneath.”
– Lisa Brackman, author of the New York Times bestselling Ellie McEnroe series (Rock Paper Tiger and Hour of the Rat)
“A well-intentioned though hasty marriage to a less-than-forthright mainland Chinese man turns sour in this prickly memoir by freelance Chicago journalist Blumberg-Kason.”
– Publishers Weekly
Susan Blumberg-Kason’s Good Chinese Wife is a stark and honest interrogation of her young marriage to a Chinese man, and a chronicle of the excruciating dissolution of that marriage. Blumberg-Kason explores difficult, personal questions about her own life and choices, as well as universal ones about how we choose our life partners, and to what extent human beings are willing – and able – to communicate with and love each other over the vast differences that can define and divide us. This is a thoughtful memoir about how to take valuable lessons from even our most painful adventures.
– Rachel DeWoskin, author of Foreign Babes in Beijing
“A fascinating, poignant and brutally honest memoir that you won’t be able to put down. Good Chinese Wife is riveting.”
– Wendy Tokunaga, author of Midori by Moonlight and His Wife and Daughters
“Susan Blumberg-Kason is a masterful storyteller, turning the harrowing details of her own experience into a compulsively readable account of a marriage gone wrong. Readers who pick up GOOD CHINESE WIFE out of curiosity about cross-cultural relationships will find plenty to ponder on that subject, but Blumberg-Kason’s story is, more importantly, a universal tale of love, disillusionment, and the courage it takes to move on.”
– Dana Sachs, author of The Secret of the Nightingale Palace
“A harrowing story of abuse and terror. Susan Blumberg shares her story with women and shows that domestic violence, sadly, pervades every culture. A must read.”
– Cayocosta72
“An American freelance journalist’s painful account of how a hasty marriage to a Chinese man turned her life upside down…it is the author’s courage to face her mistakes that makes the book worthwhile.”
– Kirkus
