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Butterfly Yellow by Thanhhà Lại
3.0
Actual rating: 3.5/5
This is a hopeful story about family set in 1980s Texas in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, an era which I haven’t read much about. Hâng, a Vietnamese refugee, searches for her younger brother Linh, with the help of an unlikely friend, LeeRoy, an aspiring rodeo star.
The rating is as low as it is because the pacing was off (didn’t hold my interest much around the middle) and the writing style were choppy in some places, although I did like the second half of the book more than the first. The last section has some really sweet moments between Hâng and her brother and Hâng and LeeRoy, but also some profound memories of Hâng’s trauma as a war refugee.
This is a hopeful story about family set in 1980s Texas in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, an era which I haven’t read much about. Hâng, a Vietnamese refugee, searches for her younger brother Linh, with the help of an unlikely friend, LeeRoy, an aspiring rodeo star.
The rating is as low as it is because the pacing was off (didn’t hold my interest much around the middle) and the writing style were choppy in some places, although I did like the second half of the book more than the first. The last section has some really sweet moments between Hâng and her brother and Hâng and LeeRoy, but also some profound memories of Hâng’s trauma as a war refugee.