A review by annieice
The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart by Chesil

3.5

honestly i was here for the vibes because the story didn't make much sense. It's purposefully so but it's confusing. the trauma that Ginny goes through is awful but I did learn something new, about Zainichi Koreans who are ethnically Korean people born and raised in Japan after 1945. Never knew about that and how much discrimination and prejudice they go through... it's awful. Ginny does something quire revolutionary against the North Korean dictatorship (at her school not like she goes against Kim or something, she'd be dead then) and gets expelled from her Japan school, then moves to Hawaii, and in the present she's in Oregon with an American foster mother. we don't know what happened to her birth parents, or exactly why she had to leave Japan and then Hawaii but oh well. it was interesting, I liked that I learned something, and seeing a character try to heal and move on is always great.
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