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Fast, Fun Facts About The Good Earth
Going Where No Book Had Gone Before
Oprah's Book Club  |  September 15, 2004
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Many writers, including the poet Adrienne Rich, recognized when they first read The Good Earth that the scenes in which O-lan gives birth were unique to American fiction at the time. Women were rarely portrayed giving birth, and never in such a simple, natural and graphic way.
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