The book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is about a man who lives in China. Marries a slave from the house of Hwang called O-lan. She is a very hard worker even when she just had a baby and that happens a lot. After there was a flood that destroyed all the crops in his town which meant no food for anybody so they had to go to the south on a thing called fire wagon. When they were in the city they begged for money but Wang lung didn’t believe in begging so he pulled people around for money. One day there were people staging A rich man’s house and as they win one room Wang lung went into another room and found a man who gave him money to let him escape. So they went back to his hometown and lived in peace until he found the woman called Lotus and a prostitute house and bought her so now she was a concubine. As Lotus didn’t get taken care of as well as she should’ve been she got fat and unpretty but Wang got to richer and richer until he was able to buy the palace of Hwang. I would not recommend this book because he was really weird, he had 2 wives and one 12 year old concubine when he was 50, not only was he weird, but he started to spend money like it was going out of fashion. I would rate this book a 1/2 star because of the reasons that I stated before.