A review by pheebsnez
Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park

4.0

the unfortunate part of this book for me was that the author's note was the most emotional part of the book (i cried). the rest of the novel really lacked a lot of emotional weight for me that i wish it had had, the way the main character felt that in a way he was keeping us as readers at arm's distance. though perhaps he, too, was at arms distance from himself and his own emotions. young is not a particularly likeable main character, but his narration is raw and realistic (it seems a lot of this book may have been based on the author's own experiences) and he still manages to be an empathetic character. 

something else to note is it definitely reads more like 4 short stories than a "novel", though there is a through-line of characters/events throughout.