A review by cactusash
Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang

5.0

I needed some more space from the outbreak of Covid before I could read this book but I’m so glad I picked it back up. It’s an engrossing story of the onset of the pandemic, but it’s a lot more than that. The pandemic is more of a backdrop to a story about independence and loneliness, familial pressures, and the pejorative meanings of different. There’s a lot of fascinating observations about human nature that I’ll be stuck on for awhile.