The Lucky Gourd Shop edition by Joanna Scott Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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In this affecting and brave novel, the mother of three adopted Korean children tries to help them discover their birth parents. But what factual information she's provided doesn't coincide with what the oldest child remembers—and knows is true. It is painfully clear that the children's history is lost.
The Lucky Gourd Shop edition by Joanna Scott Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Much has been made of the recent study conducted by The New School for Social Research showing that reading literary fiction promotes the development of empathy. Any reader of Joanna Catherine Scott’s work, however, could have told you as much. Whether she is, in her novel The Lucky Gourd Shop, richly and imaginatively reconstructing the life of a mother forced to part with her three young children, or in The Road from Chapel Hill detailing the untold life of a runaway slave during the Civil War, or in her book of prose poems Night Huntress exploring a mother’s grief in the aftermath of a tragic car accident, Joanna Catherine Scott invites us to feel what others feel, to connect via the imagination to the lives and hearts of others. This empathetic ability makers her a masterful storyteller who reveals how storytelling when done supremely well – be it in prose or in poetry – is inherently a deeply ethical, richly humane art, not for any didactic, preaching quality, but in its ability to bring to us the full humanness of other people, the “I – Thou” relationship of Martin Buber, the first necessary condition for loving our neighbor as ourselves.Product details
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The Lucky Gourd Shop edition by Joanna Scott Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
I came across this book by chance, not specifically to read a story about 3 adopted children. I had read Scotts most recent book, The Road from Chapel Hill. I quickly ordered A Child of the South and devoured it. Having been an American soldier stationed in South Korea for 3 years total, I felt I'd give this book a read. I read the book, very quickly, and would recommend it to anyone. Go into it with an open mind- and please, be aware the book is not about 3 adopted Korean children. It is their adoptive mother's gift to them. It is a form of "baby book" and playful ancedotes that many parents bestow on their birth children.
Regarding the comments made by two reviewers, I think they were made in haste, indignation and perhaps a fair measure of self centered reaction. Cultural pride maybe? South Korea is a wonderfully rich country. Especially rich culture. I don't know their financial standing in the world (although in the mid 90's they were still reeling from a faltering economy and their currency wasn't worth much. Shop keepers would give you a better than conversion rate deal if you paid in dollars.) I loved the market place experiences of the Grandmother. I felt I was back in Itawon or Tongduchon, Inchon, or Chejudo (please pick apart my spelling LOL it's been years, and I'm not going to look it up!!) I also watched in the train stations and otherwise, doting parents of little boys- and the corresponding upward sniff for girls. I had American friends with children at the time, and quite frankly, was amazed at the way that (many) Koreans treated those children. Rural and urban South Korea are very different.
Anyway, after living in South Korea for 3 years, and seeing the back alley's built into the steep hills, I think it's very believable. And riveting, and exciting.
Really enjoyed this book. Read it quite quickly because I wanted to see how the story unfolded. Worth the purchase
Good story, but not quite what I was expecting. Great eye opener to another culture. Bits of it were quite disturbing.
Enjoyed the book and wished the story had gone on longer.
An insightful but sad story of Korean life. Ended too abruptly after going through so much turmoil.
The Lucky Gourd Shop This book was on my Church reading list, but I never did figure out why. It was difficult to read about how women and girls were being treated. And the 3 orphan children who were eventually adopted and brought to America did not help, and the supposed heroine of the book lost her child even though she eventually was able to start her own business painting and selling gourds. The hell she went through after being abandoned as a baby herself did not make the ending good from my point of view.
When I search for books to read I always go to the one star reviews first. The one star reviews for The Lucky Gourd Shop are a little odd? As if a handful of parents who adopted Korean children got together and decided they all hated this book and lets write negative reviews.
No I don't think all Korean men are wife beating, female children hating, alcoholics. No I don't think all Korean wives are submissive. More importantly none of the male or female characters in the book would even fit these descriptions? I would not have read the book if that is what it was about or how the main characters were portrayed. The main characters in the book were complex adults with hard lives. None were so one dimensional as to be all good or all bad..
Much has been made of the recent study conducted by The New School for Social Research showing that reading literary fiction promotes the development of empathy. Any reader of Joanna Catherine Scott’s work, however, could have told you as much. Whether she is, in her novel The Lucky Gourd Shop, richly and imaginatively reconstructing the life of a mother forced to part with her three young children, or in The Road from Chapel Hill detailing the untold life of a runaway slave during the Civil War, or in her book of prose poems Night Huntress exploring a mother’s grief in the aftermath of a tragic car accident, Joanna Catherine Scott invites us to feel what others feel, to connect via the imagination to the lives and hearts of others. This empathetic ability makers her a masterful storyteller who reveals how storytelling when done supremely well – be it in prose or in poetry – is inherently a deeply ethical, richly humane art, not for any didactic, preaching quality, but in its ability to bring to us the full humanness of other people, the “I – Thou” relationship of Martin Buber, the first necessary condition for loving our neighbor as ourselves.
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