Review of The Golden Gate

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The murder of a presidential candidate draws a lot of publicity and theories in the year 1944. Amy Chua invites the reader to take a trip through the 1930s and 40s as America deals with battles overseas and within to solve a murder that appears to be tied to a mystery more than a decade older. But to simplify this story to just a murder mystery would short change it. This is a story of mankind.

Three granddaughters. A strong grandmother. A dead politician. An insane woman. A dead sister. Communists sneaking around. The leader of China’s wife. Hidden Japanese. The rich. The poor. This is only the tip of the iceberg of the cast in this story. It will take a determined San Francisco police detective who has his own secrets as to his ethnic background to dig through generations of prejudice and the current law to discuss the truth. As he does, the reader finds more than just mystery.

This book is about people, culture, and the soul. The story takes long drives through the lives of the Asian population in America during World War II and how they had to live through strong prejudices and fight a society that turned against them. It…