A review by novemah
Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li

3.0

I'm a big fan of Yiyun Li and read all of her books, so I know that she tends to write about the less happy aspects of life. This one is probably the darkest one yet and left me feeling really unsettled. Even though it's fiction, all of the characters and situations felt very real, which is disconcerting because one particular character was very cold and detached but was still completely relatable even though she essentially ruins multiple people's lives. I have mixed feelings because it's well-written, but I just couldn't get over the fact that the ending felt so bleak. A part of me is always sad to read fiction where good people do not find happy endings and bad people do. It's too much like real life for my tastes.