![]() Looking back, whatever challenges I was facing at the time seem a little easier, more privileged, less heavy, and I found myself thankful all things considered. ![]() In the novel, O-Lan, Wang’s wife, gives birth numerous times alone in a private room amidst the imminent threat of death, yet she perseveres. Throughout it all, I was reminded of the terrible hardships in The Good Earth faced by Wang Lung and his family: drought, robbery, pestilence, and starvation. In addition while reading this novel, my wife and I made some large personal transitions: we moved into a new home and welcomed our first-born into the world. It has been an eerie experience reading The Good Earth, a 1931 novel about rural Chinese farmers, at the same time as our world has descended into a global pandemic which likely originated in rural China (the COVID-19 or “coronavirus” pandemic of 2020). ![]() ![]() The next Pulitzer Prize winning-novel on my list has been strangely timely. ![]()
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