comadivine11 's review for:

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

3.0

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Having read Parasites Like Us and thoroughly enjoying it, I was looking forward to reading Mr. Johnson's Pulitzer winning novel The Orphan Master's Son. I must say I was pretty disappointed. I don't really see why this won a Pulitzer. It may just be one of those moments in time that events coincide and someone benefits from it. In this case the death of Kim Jong Il brought North Korea to the forefront of the public mind roughly around the time this book about North Korea came out. This book didn't leave me with any particularly strong notions, I'm pretty ambivalent towards it and it was somewhat of a tedious read.