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Subtle, but incredibly insightful and painful, this novel explores so many themes that are close to my heart. Celeste Ng paints a portrait of a family in crisis, a family so filled with emotional impairments and secrets they seem beyond redemption. There are many, many lessons to be learned here: about the value of recognizing and communicating our feelings and hearts desires to the ones we love; about following our passions; about allowing our children the freedom to live their own dreams and n
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A melancholy and introspective story. I don't take notes while I read because I'm too busy reading, so I'm still mulling over how I feel about this book.
It is well written: soft, lyrical, insightful, poignant, and bittersweet are some of the words that come immediately to mind. At the same time, it is unsettling.
It is at its core a book about dreams: those dreams we have for ourselves and those dreams we give up for others; those dreams that others foist upon us without realizing their weight; ...more
It is well written: soft, lyrical, insightful, poignant, and bittersweet are some of the words that come immediately to mind. At the same time, it is unsettling.
It is at its core a book about dreams: those dreams we have for ourselves and those dreams we give up for others; those dreams that others foist upon us without realizing their weight; ...more
This novel about a Chinese dad and a Caucasian mom, parents of three kids and residents of a small town in Ohio in the 1970s, begins, "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet." I was disappointed in the way that the book develops from there - if the reader is to know this from the beginning, that tension should be used more powerfully. In part, it's muddied and stalled by flashbacks in which we learn about the father, the mother, and family history. There are some interesting insights, but o
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When a teenager dies, her whole family crumbles.
Really beautiful work, it just became slow for me towards the end. definitely would pick up any future novels she writes though, great voice.
Hit close to home. Really enjoyed it.
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