A review by the_marjest
Shanghailanders by Juli Min

4.0

Shout out to @Annie for gifting me this book! It’s exactly the sort I’ve been really into lately (i.e. collections of character studies of complicated, interconnected people) and reminds me in many ways of a less well-written (but still very well-written), less insufferable Goon Squad. My only wish is that it’d been longer, as a lot of the characters’ stories are really interesting but leave you hanging in a way that can feel scattered and disjointed