A review by torchlab
The Gangster We Are All Looking For by lê thi diem thúy

4.0

The prose in this is just gorgeous—vivid, lyrical and exact. The author manages to pull off the impressive feat of writing from a child’s POV for nearly the entire book without ever coming across as false or cloying. Instead, she evokes the wonder and surreality of childhood experience, the way the boundary between the magical and the everyday is just that much more permeable.