Book review Throw away daughter

Book review Throw away daughter

 

I think you have never heard of this book, Throw away daughter. But, if you haven’t read it yet, you should read this book.

 

The author of this book is Ting-Xing Ye. She was born in Shanghai, China in 1952. She obtained a degree in English Literature from Beijing University and became an English interpreter for the national government. During this time, she met a Canadian English teacher named William E. Bell, who will marry her. In 1987, she moved to Canada and started to write books, both fiction and non-fiction.

 

This is a novel about Dong-Mei, or Grace, who was thrown away by her Chinese family and adopted by a Canadian family when she was a baby. As she grows older with the Canadian family which adopted her, she starts to have a desire to know about her past and her original family in China. This story is described from many perspectives. In other words, chapters are narrated by different characters that appear in the story. I believe that this technique of using more than one perspective lead to the writer’s success.

 

As I mentioned before, there are certain plotting skills and technique used in the story, such as chapters being narrated by different character from previous chapters. This plotting technique may be confusing to some readers like me, and it may take a few chapters to get used to this style. However, this technique helps the reader understand both sides of the decisions made by the characters in the story. Through reading this book, I realized that every decision in life is made through communication with other people who have different points of view, and there are no perfect decisions in life.

 

In conclusion, this book may be quite confusing but I believe that this book is worth reading. You may cry at the end of the story, like I did.