Rice Husband

The Rice Husband is about a woman named Lena. The story talks about her daily struggles of trying to deal with all of the negative things her mother says about the future. For example, this story talks about a lot of different predictions about her daughters past, such as, when she said that for every grain of rice she didn't eat, her future husband would grow more spots on his face, and she would be destined to be married to a very mean and bad guy. Another thing the mother predicted was that Lena's father would die because her mother planted a seed that he gave her, and even though she nurtured it affectionately. the plant still died out. Basically, the whole story is about Lena and her husband trying to impress Lena's mother because her mother finds something wrong with everything, and because Lena is starting to feel that ever since Harold, her husband, started getting paid seven times more than Lena did, that everything slowly started to grow more and more un-equal; and this concerns her because when they had started dating, they used to divide everything straight down the middle, and now she feels that everything is leaning towards Harold. I think this story really connects and picks at my interests of superstition, because i really feel that there are signs of things around you that mean you're going to have a good or a bad day. I'm really starting to like where this book is going and i hope that this sense of suspense keeps going through-out the rest of the book.