Reviews

A Bestiary by Lily Hoang

laika_laika_laika's review

challenging dark funny hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

chillcox15's review

5.0

Lily Hoang's A Bestiary is a masterful blend of essay, fragment, and poem, concerning addiction- to both substances and to love/relationships, and how both can be utterly destructive. Crossed through this are Hoang's considerations of her Vietnamese-American identity. There are some moments in A Bestiary that are among the most brutally honest I've ever read.

a_1212's review

2.0

~2.75

hnobbe's review

3.0

Sad as hell

jolee97's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

sofiam012345's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

spellslotz's review

5.0

what can i say - this book is gorgeous and hit home a million times over.

rdebner's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Addiction

Moderate: Racism

margaret_adams's review

Found on the small press prose shelf at Powell's. I keep picking up these collage-style hybrid books that are impossible to categorize and I'm really into them. A few pages in, thought, how have I not heard of Lily Hoang before? I don't want to miss whatever she publishes next.

beccas_books's review

4.0

I need to be better about reading things that are poetry or nontraditional prose. I read it really fast, but I should go back and savor more. I really liked this book, and I look forward to rereading passages later.