A review by andyblv
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

4.0

I don’t know what to make of this book. Is it a pastoral ode to agrarian society? A morality tale on the perils of becoming what you always despised? A dramatization of early 20th century China, with its upheavals and flood and drought cycles? It’s all of things and more. I can see why it won the Pulitzer. It is beautiful and lyrical, but also deeply troubling. Like a good book should be.