I'm not very far in this book at the moment. So far this book has proven to be an interesting read and tells a lot about the older Chinese culture. This book at first made me really think about families and how they are set up. The names seemed to be the most confusing part. But once i got it straight that this was written from the point of view of a young woman about her mother, grandmother, and great- grandmother, mostly past generations, it became a bit easier. It was interesting to read about how her great-grandmother had to bind her feet, and the pain that she had to go through, to be acceptable to her husband who didn't even appreciate her. It was also interesting how the narrator's grandmother was a concubine and that she really seemed to like her "master", but in the end had to leave and ran away with the narrator's mother to safety, and eventually met the doctor, who took the grandmother as his wife, even though his son killed himself to make a point, so that he wouldn't marry her. What was hard i guess about this book was that, I had trouble keeping it straight in my mind that the narrator is of a younger generation and keeping the characters straight as far as generation goes. But over all i believe that this book will only get more interesting as the pages are turned and more of the story unfolds.