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The musing of a writer in her older age of her life mostly as a young girl in Colonial Indochina. A sad tale of the seduction of young girl by an older lover and the seduction of Indochina by France.
This is an emotionally powerful story that delves into uncomfortable topics and is written in achingly poetic prose that carries a heavy load of memory and grief. Brief and devastating.
It was not the narrator’s age nor the age difference that bothered me, but how the author seemed to fetishize it. I didn’t feel like I was entering the world of the characters but rather only the author’s headspace. As to the writing itself, while it was at times evocative, it often felt overwrought. The point of the story seemed self-mythologizing rather than anything authentic.
Good fast read. I felt sorry for the girl and the family she had. Such a horrible childhood. She was only looking for someone to love her probably.
Luxurious prose, atmospheric and thick with the malaise of the tropics. I drank diet coke while reading this and it felt wrong—opt for wine.
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