A review by bleales
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi

5.0

this book was actually just fucking stunning - literarily, physically, visually, structurally, etc. i’m so glad i found a physical copy of this because the way the prose (?) was structured along with the photography and scans were just so so striking. i’ll admit some of the content went a bit over my head but i feel like part of that may have been the point! translation is hard! narratives of war are messy! thoughts are not coherent!!!! anyways this was such an incredible read but also very heavy - i had to put it down and take a break at some points because some of the descriptions were so graphic. the notes at the end were definitely very helpful and needed. gonna stare at the wall for a bit now… yea