A review by mallaeuswastaken
Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family by Tash Aw

3.0

Another book plucked on a whim from the shelves at work, although I already had a feeling I would enjoy this from the cover alone. A fractured memoir of a family history, combining elements of biography and cultural-historical analysis to paint a portrait of a people connected by complex threads of culture, language, food, family and shared history. I’ve never read the work of Ocean Vuong, but something tells me that fans of his particular style of writing would get a lot from this.