Excerpt: 'Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother'
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
By Amy Chua
Hardcover, 256 pages
The Penguin Press
List price: $25.95
"This is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. It's also about Mozart and Mendelssohn, the piano and the violin, and how we made it to Carnegie Hall.
This was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones.
But instead, it's about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how I was humbled by a thirteen-year-old."
Excerpted from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua. Copyright 2010 by Amy Chua. Excerpted by permission of The Penguin Press.
We have several selections lined up to read for these cold chilly days. Shall we just add one more to keep the fires burning? Living where we live, the mother figure in this book is too familiar to us. We are surrounding by and possibly resemble such a parental armature. Or are our children the armatures and we just load up the clay?
