The Good Earth takes place in China.  The main character, Wang Lung is a peasant farmer who married a slave, O-lan, who gave Wang Lung lots of children, who throughout the course of the book go their separate ways.  Wang Lung purchased land from the house of Huang to grow crops to sell in the market.  But when the rain wouldn’t come, the family had to migrate south to beg for food to be able to survive.  Wang Lung went with a group of people to ransack a rich home.  He stole a sack of gold and bought 300 acres of land.  He purchased a young prostitute, Lotus, as his concubine and shunned O-lan, who became critically ill.  Then Wang felt bad and realized that he had taken O-lan for granted all these years.  In the end of the book, Wang Lung is a old and rich man.  I rate this book two stars because of the slow pace.  I would not recommend this book because it has way too many inappropriate references.