Jesse Sutanto Á 4 review
But you'd already know how wrong you are, if you had good parents. Or Asian ones. I most certainly feel that I've absorbed so much of the culture, the importance of sharing and exploring tea, and how it magically forges friendships and strengthens family. Or perhaps the magic is in a sweet, innocent, mature little lady? Ok, some of those adjectives don't actually apply to Vera Wong. But her savvy, intrusive, know it all attitude delivered in a completely self assured and disarming manner, of course may provide all of the answers. Kindle, 0,00 € , Gebundenes Buch, Taschenbuch I absolutely LOVED Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. The book was both very funny and very warm, and is definitely one I can enthusiastically recommend.Vera's character absolutely leaps off the page. If you've ever had encounters with Asian women of a certain age you won't be surprised that you'll immediately begin to receive information about everything you are doing wrong in your life, and you'll find that there's literally no alternative but to give in and do as you're told. Vera is a virtual tsunami, and it's hopeless to try and resist her.I only hope that Miss Sutanto plans to give us stories featuring Vera. I'm absolutely in love with this annoying, terrifying, and thoroughly wonderful woman. Kindle, 0,00 € , Gebundenes Buch, Taschenbuch Just an amazing story.Bit slow to start, but then unfolded into an amazing tale, of love, friendship and food.Oh my goodness, I need a Vera in my life, this book makes you so hungry! Kindle, 0,00 € , Gebundenes Buch, Taschenbuch What delicious fun, the characters are all so intriguing and the way they grow on you is going to make you feel like you know them. I kind of figured out the murderer before it was revealed, but even that has a unique twist. Truly an amazing read. Kindle, 0,00 € , Gebundenes Buch, Taschenbuch There are six main characters in Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, and all of them are broken. Five are people who had relationships with the man who died, Marshall Chen. They are his twin brother Oliver, his wife Julia and two year old daughter Emma, Riki, a programmer from Indonesia, and Sana, an artist, who did business with Marshall. Even two year old Emma is not entirely all right when the book starts.The sixth main character, of course, is Vera Wong herself. Vera is a stereotypical Chinese mother. She is proud of being a Chinese Mom:I am mother too. Actually, I am Chinese mother. You can’t get better than that. We raise the best children in the world, you just look at any hospital, all the surgeon are Chinese.” Vera beams with pride, as though she has personally been responsible for all the surgeons in every hospital.Vera runs a tea shop called Vera Wang's [sic] World Famous Teahouse. She has Chinese aunty super powers (figuratively only) of cooking, cleaning, and ordering people around. It is virtually impossible to say No to Vera. Also self confidence. Vera knows that she is right about everything. Like most people who are certain that they are right, Vera is often wrong.But Vera is not OK. Her tea house has only one customer. And Vera is lonely. Her husband is dead. Her son, Tilbert, a successful lawyer, rarely visits. (Tilly, as Vera calls him, is often presented as a villain, an undutiful son, in the novel, but honestly, I sympathize. If your mother is Vera Wong, freedom from her probably feels like a necessity of mere survival.)So, Vera gets up one morning, comes down to her tea shop, and finds a stranger's body on the floor. She swipes the flash drive in his hand, determined to investigate the murder herself. (Murder? who said anything about a murder? Vera, who watches TV shows like CSI, leaps instantly to the conclusion that it's a murder, and that she is qualified to investigate than the police.) In the course of her investigation she makes the acquaintance of Riki, Sana, Oliver, Julia, and Emma. In her officious way she invades the life of each of them and fixes what's broken in them.I was not sold on Vera at first. She is hard working and competent and kind and funny (though usually unintentionally), but she has no boundaries and is often offensive (again, unintentionally). But then I thought, Aha! I see what Jesse Sutanto is doing! She's giving Vera's character room to grow.Well, it would be a spoiler to tell you if I was right or not. But I will tell you that the story builds to a climax, which was really splendid. If I were to rate the book on the last 20%, I would give it five stars.Now, two small points. First, the mystery is, in my opinion, the least interesting thing about the book. The solution was, in every respect I cared about, obvious from the start. Second, the title Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, has almost nothing to do with the plot. At no point in the book does Vera, even in her imagination, produce advice for murderers. In her Acknowledgements Sutanto explains that when she wrote the pitch for the book, she didn't have a plot. Her agent and publisher were enthusiastic, however, so she pushed aside an ongoing project to get this one out quickly. The title and description from that pitch became the title and first blurb for the novel that quickly resulted. (I saw that initial blurb, which contained the idea of advice for murderers, but it has since been replaced with a blurb written by someone who has read the finished book.)So, very fun little book with a superb ending. If you're looking for a short, fun read, you probably can't do much better. Kindle, 0,00 € , Gebundenes Buch, Taschenbuch
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