Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and g...
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May 21, 2010
Caty
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My friend Jeffrey Ow, a cool Asian American History professor teaching in Arizona (where they're criminalizing ethnic studies as we speak--oh no Jeff!) sent me this book to keep me company when I was all alonio when John was in detox. I enjoyed b/c I'm a sucker for all dystopic and apocalyptirific fiction, but some of the use of language and the mixed metaphors seemed self indulgent and silly to me. I think I would've thought it was great writing when I was a teenager--maybe it's b/c the protago
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Jul 07, 2011
Paula
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I loved this novel when I first read it back in the nineties, so I decided to re-read it after reading The Floating World recently. Although I enjoyed the novel this time around, it, alas, does not stand up entirely to time’s harsh accounting. Kadohata sets her novel in a near-future Los Angeles (the novel ends in 2052) and therein lies her problem. Much that she describes seems quite credible: isolated and guarded Richtowns; an ethnically and racially hybrid majority population; environmental
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Apr 09, 2009
I only got about 20 pages into this worthless waste of paper before I realized that I would rather eat my own shit, vomit it up, eat it again, shit it all out again, and eat it again than read another page. In fact, if I did that, and then slapped my shit-vomit-shit-vomit between two pieces of paper, I would have written a better book. So, in that sense, this horrible piece of garbage has given me hope.
Mar 22, 2008
Courtney
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- read for the February Book-a-Month Challenge 2008
The setting is Los Angeles about 50 years in the future. The government rations water and gas. Pollution and sickness are rampant. Loss of loved ones to death or the police is quite common. Yet, despite the gloom, we see how people still find hope through the main character, Francie, a teenage girl on the brink of adulthood. She, her family, her friends, and her boyfriend still seek love and friendship in the midst of chaos and desolation. More...
The setting is Los Angeles about 50 years in the future. The government rations water and gas. Pollution and sickness are rampant. Loss of loved ones to death or the police is quite common. Yet, despite the gloom, we see how people still find hope through the main character, Francie, a teenage girl on the brink of adulthood. She, her family, her friends, and her boyfriend still seek love and friendship in the midst of chaos and desolation. More...
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