Enjoyable if not memorable. Poor American-Chinese girl goes to Singapore to meet family of beau . . . she doesn't know he is from a billionaire family. His mother rejects her. Tears, drama, our American girl's mother has a disreputable past. American girl (who is a professor of economics) gets courage, stands up to the Singapore dragon potential mother in law. Walks out. Happy ending as beau gets on plane and proposes again, apparently with mom's blessing
"To all humankind, Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends, she was only a frequently passing thought." Angel Clare is a good character. He's "enlightened," in so many ways, but when Tess's confesses her "crime," he reverts to ancestral form . . . Tess's "confession" comes earlier than I expected, right after Angel reveals that he has had a bad moment with a woman. Tess points out the similarity in their transgressions, though his is the only true transgression, expecting forgiveness. She doesn't get it. She returns to her mother . . . realizes she can't stay with her. Thoughts to suicide. Unhappiness that divorce is not possible. Departs. Tragic in that the two, if Angel could just see clearly, would indeed be a great couple, each adding to the other. Nature as a definite force involved in the tragedy. It's not neutral--when things go bad, the very skies mock Tess. Tess as unaware of the power of her bea...
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