I love love love this book. Each story is so amazing, telling the tales of the relationship between Chinese mothers, and their American-Chinese daughters. Also the tearing apart of lives through war, and the great deal of change that must come in living in America. It's such a wonderful tale of dual-identity. It never fails to make me cry. It's so poetic too, there's really nothing not to like. The only book I've read by Amy Tan, but I bet it's her opus. I can't see a book being superior to this one.