A review by kate_hammer
How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This volume is remarkable. Steeped in themes of homeness, unbelonging, memories of trangenerational loss, longing, betrayal, forensic dissection of how privileged people possess others, How to Wash a Heart is (somehow) visceral, oblique and hard-hitting. 
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