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This book makes me wonder can money buy happiness but at what price do we buy it. When it costs us our family, and our lives that we reinvent when life does not serve the purposes we want and that we get selfish and that we sacriface the people who loved, supported us, that we change the script. This book could benefited from a family tree and the point of view more clearly written. I did like that family dynamics affect us in every culture and in previous years. and if the book was called Motherland , would we see a different perspectives from the sons and the father.

This book reminds me of a quote from Lee Iacocca, who changed his given name to accommodate to a world that judged people on the basis of heritage, and not willing to accept individuality. "No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? This also means to me that we don't have to struggle by ourselves, we need to be our own person but not at the sacrifice of hurting loved ones in the process, but ultimate what is the cause of reinventing ourselves, when we walk away from the first people we meet on this journey.

Ms. See has provided us another treat for the readers in regards to Asian culture. The details and the characters are very real and the reader feels the sorrows and joys. The book in the words of the japanese , "minu ga hana". English translation: “Not seeing is a flower,” “Reality is never as good as your imagination”

www.fluentin3months.com/japanese-proverbs/

This is one of the best historcial books I read this year, The plot was well written , strong characters. Has all that I love a blend of crime and historcial,