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arayo's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Colonisation
Moderate: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Xenophobia, Infidelity, Deportation, Death, and Genocide
Minor: War and Domestic abuse
mobooks_mojoy's review
5.0
Graphic: Death, Colonisation, and Death of parent
lauraportalupi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Grief, and Colonisation
Moderate: Death, Classism, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Genocide
just_one_more_paige's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Death of parent, Death, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Xenophobia, Trafficking, Alcoholism, War, and Violence
Minor: Sexual content and Infidelity
hollyd19's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
The structure of this novel is creative with sections delineated by relational groupings (daughters, sisters, lovers, etc). The story goes back and forth from the 50s until nearly present day, converging to bring the whole story into focus. The writing is truly exceptional. Several passages bowled be over with poetic, insistent prose determined to scrub away grit from a window and reveal beyond wise, hard-earned truths.
Graphic: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Racism, Colonisation, Grief, and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Genocide, Mental illness, Cultural appropriation, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Alcoholism
Minor: Deportation and Pregnancy
internationalreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Grief, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Deportation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence
Moderate: Sexual content
sarah984's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Death of parent and Grief
Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Death, War, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Colonisation, Genocide, and Xenophobia
Minor: Child death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Deportation, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Animal death, Sexual content, Suicide, Ableism, Medical content, Vomit, and Racism
careinthelibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
I didn't love all the perspectives equally and found myself yearning to be back in the minds of a couple of our characters when I was reading about someone elsewhere. Jumping around in the timeline didn't work for me.
Actually, if I'm being honest, the story itself didn't stick with me a whole lot. It was those characters and the content regarding Tibetan culture that I remember best about the novel. The biting critique of white westerners' fascination and appropriation of Tibetan culture without a care for the Free Tibet movement. Especially in the art world where culturally sacred artefacts are taken from their homelands and denied repatriation.
Beautiful writing and beautiful message. I can see why it's making waves in the litfic world.
Graphic: War, Death of parent, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Death
Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Racism, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Xenophobia