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spookyzeeko's review
dark
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.75
A story about culture, transmitting cultural heritage, life in post-colonialism, the relationship with have with our heritage, the heritage of our parents, our parents, our privileges....
Although the story seemed interesting since the beginning, the writing style made it hard to get caught up. There’s a lot of repetition in the sentence structure, I guess meant for a dramatic or serious tone, that were just really annoying to me at first.
Secondly, some passages were hard to empathise with. In an attempt to be honest about her ignorance, the author portrays how spoiled and privileged she actually was, recalling how poorly she viewed her family and herself.
On the other hand, some passages were very emotional and the book had me teary-eyed several times. The family stories are beautiful and intricate. The portraits are sincere and authentic. I really enjoyed the more informative passages about the story of Okinawa, the war, the people that I found super interesting and quite well written (although again, the repetition of structures were a big turn-off to me).
The ending made me very emotional but in a good, hopeful way. I do not regret reading this book at all and I think of marking the chapters that were the most interesting and informative to me, that I’d like to go back to.
Although the story seemed interesting since the beginning, the writing style made it hard to get caught up. There’s a lot of repetition in the sentence structure, I guess meant for a dramatic or serious tone, that were just really annoying to me at first.
Secondly, some passages were hard to empathise with. In an attempt to be honest about her ignorance, the author portrays how spoiled and privileged she actually was, recalling how poorly she viewed her family and herself.
On the other hand, some passages were very emotional and the book had me teary-eyed several times. The family stories are beautiful and intricate. The portraits are sincere and authentic. I really enjoyed the more informative passages about the story of Okinawa, the war, the people that I found super interesting and quite well written (although again, the repetition of structures were a big turn-off to me).
The ending made me very emotional but in a good, hopeful way. I do not regret reading this book at all and I think of marking the chapters that were the most interesting and informative to me, that I’d like to go back to.
Content Warnings
Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Racial slurs
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