Thank you so much to Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press and Minotaur Books for the advanced copy of The Golden Gate by Amy Chua. What an amazing debut novel (that is out today, 9/19)! 

This is an intricately woven historical mystery set in Berkeley, California, in 1944 that not only incorporates mystery, family drama, race and social class, but also a fascinating amount of history of the area. Sometimes I rushed a bit through those sections because I wanted to get back to the mystery. And let me tell you, I did not have the ending figured out at all! The author’s note is also a must read. So well done!