A review by muccia
Skinship by Yoon Choi

emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

Skinship took me a longer time to read than most books. Not because it was boring or because I didn’t like it, but because it needed to sit with me for some time. This collection of short stories was unlike anything I’ve ever read. It brought forward perspectives from communities that I had no knowledge of and no real baseline for. It demonstrated how it feels to not fit in, to not speak English, to feel like an outsider in your own community. Yoon Choi was able to accomplish a discomfort in me that I needed to feel in order for me to even remotely understand what it must be like for a minority living in this country. To try to comprehend how a young woman in an arranged marriage feels, or an immigrant coming here to live out the “American dream.” Skinship is poignant and profound and would do well in the hands of anyone hoping to find a little hope for humanity and togetherness in this world.