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A review by lifeinpoetry
Terroir: Love, Out of Place by Natasha Sajé
Did not finish book.
Honestly, this was a mess racially, I'd even go so far as calling certain parts of it racist.
For example, during the scene where Sajé introduces her husband's doctor and notes her race the dread started, based on what I'd read so far. Then she continues to refer the doctor as the 'Chinese opthamologist.' Speculates with her friend if the doctor's being Chinese is why she's 'blunt' and why the doctor mistakes the author and her friend as mother and daughter. Speculates on whether it's 'cultural.' Speculates on whether she's harder on the doctor because she's a 'woman or an immigrant.' Speculates on whether she finds the doctor's personality 'unlikable.' She seems uncertain whether she's harder on the doctor for being a woman or for her personality (which, of course, she's been tying to her race).
DNF at 70-ish percent
For example, during the scene where Sajé introduces her husband's doctor and notes her race the dread started, based on what I'd read so far. Then she continues to refer the doctor as the 'Chinese opthamologist.' Speculates with her friend if the doctor's being Chinese is why she's 'blunt' and why the doctor mistakes the author and her friend as mother and daughter. Speculates on whether it's 'cultural.' Speculates on whether she's harder on the doctor because she's a 'woman or an immigrant.' Speculates on whether she finds the doctor's personality 'unlikable.' She seems uncertain whether she's harder on the doctor for being a woman or for her personality (which, of course, she's been tying to her race).
DNF at 70-ish percent