The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck reports of similar occurrences surface

reports of similar occurrences surface across the land

But their tale starts to resemble a tumultuous rollercoaster ride when Catherine’s father dies

Already seen as oddballs in their small Japanese town in the 1960s

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The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck reports of similar occurrences surfaceWhen O lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wan Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land until the famine comes. Half starved, the family joins thousands to beg on the city streets. All seems lost, until O lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the