A review by mjfmjfmjf
A Normal Pig by K-Fai Steele

3.0

This book feels like it was written in code. Parallels to being an immigrant as well as being bi-racial both seemed pretty clear. And perhaps by making everyone pigs, it would be easier to talk about the general situation of being different from the specific of how they are different. It is easy for me to read the lunch thing as including kimchi, but that could say more about me.

This was not bad. It felt true. But the being pigs really didn't work for me much. The whole book felt just a little too indirect. And the feelings of being singled-out, uncomfortable, just a little too easy to get past.

Still good. 3.5 of 5.