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Separation: A History by Christine Chia

dustyduck's review

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3.0

Personal veers into the political, a tad too much. Thought-provoking and fantastically humanizing at some points (dancing in the dark, my lifelong struggle, the last leaf), trite at others (plenty in the first half- short, end). Some of the more on-the-nose poetry/prose poetry here does thus struggles to highlight the interplay between her own intimate, familial history and those of the nation.
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