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The Fervor
by Alma Katsu
Thank you PutnamBooks for gifting me a finished copy of The Fervor by Alma Katsu. My opinions are my own.
I can't get over how much I love The Fervor. During the middle of WWII in the US, Meiko and her daughter Aiko are forced to live in internment camps despite Aiko being born in America and has a white father who's a pilot for the military. There's a lot of racism and animosity towards Japanese Americans as tensions run high and the war rages on. And mysterious illness that seems to have originated from balloons found throughout the western side of the US and the appearance of a Japanese woman in a kimono with tiny spiders that appear. Told in various POV whose lives intertwine with each other one way or another, it delves into the characters reasoning for their beliefs, why they think the way they do and what drives them to such feelings and actions.
I've always been fascinated by Asian mythology and urban legends as I find them wonderful and terrifying. Alma beautifully writes a story that ties history with occult, but also parallels what we are seeing today in America, which is a rise in Asian hate crime due to influential people, like politicians, blaming China for COVID, and therefore, in some people's minds, all Asians are to blame. The senseless attacks and murders on innocent people for just living their lives for just being an Asian in America in the 1940 vs today is not so different. It's an unfortunate thing I can resonate with as an Asian American. This creepy, haunting, and spectacular book is one I highly recommend.
I can't get over how much I love The Fervor. During the middle of WWII in the US, Meiko and her daughter Aiko are forced to live in internment camps despite Aiko being born in America and has a white father who's a pilot for the military. There's a lot of racism and animosity towards Japanese Americans as tensions run high and the war rages on. And mysterious illness that seems to have originated from balloons found throughout the western side of the US and the appearance of a Japanese woman in a kimono with tiny spiders that appear. Told in various POV whose lives intertwine with each other one way or another, it delves into the characters reasoning for their beliefs, why they think the way they do and what drives them to such feelings and actions.
I've always been fascinated by Asian mythology and urban legends as I find them wonderful and terrifying. Alma beautifully writes a story that ties history with occult, but also parallels what we are seeing today in America, which is a rise in Asian hate crime due to influential people, like politicians, blaming China for COVID, and therefore, in some people's minds, all Asians are to blame. The senseless attacks and murders on innocent people for just living their lives for just being an Asian in America in the 1940 vs today is not so different. It's an unfortunate thing I can resonate with as an Asian American. This creepy, haunting, and spectacular book is one I highly recommend.