A review by celiahughes
Owlish by Dorothy Tse

2.0

This book has led me to write my first review because I am left feeling intensely confused. So much of this book I found wonderful: beautiful writing, captivating surrealism, an intimate perspective into a political climate I know very little about, and its generally compelling nature. But as many positive things there are to say, there are an equal amount of negatives. I think these have been described in detail in previous reviews, but in short I spent the first half of the book deeply uncomfortable and wanting to DNF, and then the last 30% just completely bewildered about what is happening. Reading it has left me with a strange combination of feelings, but it has impacted me in such a way that I don't think I'll be forgetting it anytime soon (for better or for worse)