Two Kinds | Critical Overview
Early reviews of Tan's The Joy Luck Club, often mistakenly called a novel, were generally positive. Writing for the New York Times Book Review, Orville Schell praises Tan's grasp of the Chinese-American experience and says that Tan "has a wonderful eye for what is telling, a fine ear for dialog, a deep empathy for her subject matter and a guilelessly straightforward way of writing.’’ The stories, he claims, ‘‘sing with a rare fidelity and beauty.’’
In a review in Time magazine, John Skow maintains that "the author writes with both inside and outside...
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