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A review by cornmaven
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
4.0
There are only 6 stories in here, but boy are they powerful. The overarching theme is trauma and disaster - brought on by nature and/or humans - and how the victims, bystanders, and perpetrators deal with it. Johnson moves smoothly from cancer, to post East Germany to child porn to North Korean defectors. It's amazing. The child porn story was almost too difficult to read.
This is the first Adam Johnson book I have read, and it will likely cause me to seek out more. His writing style is very easily ingested; there was a different "voice" for each story, and I liked that.
This is the first Adam Johnson book I have read, and it will likely cause me to seek out more. His writing style is very easily ingested; there was a different "voice" for each story, and I liked that.