Susan Blumberg-Kason

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Book Review – Lisa Brackmann

July 10, 2014 By

"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 … [Read more...]

Book Review – Publishers Weekly

July 8, 2014 By

"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 … [Read more...]

Book Review – Rachel DeWoskin

July 8, 2014 By

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 … [Read more...]

Book Review – Wendy Tokunaga

June 18, 2014 By

"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 … [Read more...]

Book Review – Dana Sachs

June 18, 2014 By

"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 … [Read more...]

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