rambleroflondon's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
paperbacksocial's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
evo's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
mallaeuswastaken's review against another edition
3.0
Another book plucked on a whim from the shelves at work, although I already had a feeling I would enjoy this from the cover alone. A fractured memoir of a family history, combining elements of biography and cultural-historical analysis to paint a portrait of a people connected by complex threads of culture, language, food, family and shared history. I’ve never read the work of Ocean Vuong, but something tells me that fans of his particular style of writing would get a lot from this.