elpeger 's review for:

Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song

3.0

---

I really wanted to love this book. Unfortunately, it doesn't live up to it's hype. It reads too much like a lightly edited diary. The information that is in the skipped entries isn't summed up and it just leaves clear empty holes in the narrative. It reads like little snapshots in a life of a girl plus little lesson-learned inserts, instead of a flowing story.

Also, some things just don't make sense. For example, on p 103 it's implied that Umma had called the school because the counselor was writing a recommendation for college. But it is in the section that talks about end of senior year activities, by which time all college applying is long over.