A review by rosemary_for_remembrance
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Very beautifully written, and with a really impressive basis of history, literature, and physics. Sometimes quite difficult to read, because there's a lot of references to historical atrocities in here. 

Many of these stories are about cultural identity (especially Chinese/Chinese-American and Japanese/Japanese-American), family, and interpersonal (and intercultural) relationships, but I think the most common thread is about the complexities of human societies and how people respond during trying circumstances. And he has a lot of interesting things to say about that.
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