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Buck (1892-1973), drew from her rich experiences as part of a missionary family in China.\u00a0 What&#8217;s so unusual about another missionary story?\u00a0 Pearl Buck and her family (the Sydenstrickers) were living and working <em>inside<\/em> China before it was officially opened to the West.\u00a0 Her most famous work, <em>The Good Earth<\/em> (for which Buck won a Pulitzer Prize) is a true life narrative of a Chinese family struggling to hold onto the small farm from which they exist.\u00a0 The story is so rich with the culture of the country that it would be a treasure to read for that alone.\u00a0 Buck is more than a narrator, though, and weaves human motive into a gripping plot filled with conflicts and resolutions to rival Dickens.\u00a0 Her works are well above average level reading in vocabulary and structure (later in her life, Buck was a professor of English literature in Chinese universities).\u00a0 This novel is the first in a trilogy; the second is titled <em>Sons<\/em>; the third is <em>A House Divided.<\/em> The lack of human comforts, the void of social entertainment, and the rudimentary lifestyle found in these novels will make any reader see his position in this day with gratitude and humbleness.\u00a0 A gripping saga set in the Sino-Japanese war is <em>Dragon Seed,<\/em> often considered her very best novel because of its weaving of Chinese culture and intense plot.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8062,"template":"","categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8331","catbird-seat","type-catbird-seat","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-catbird-seat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pearl S. 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