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A review by oddreyloo
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
4.0
this book is amazing and makes me want to educate myself so much more on the cambodian genocide. growing up in a vietnamese household, i really only ever thought about the effects of one specific asian communist regime. this definitely opened my eyes to a something i’d never even heard of before.
only thing: why doesn’t it say the book is co-written by arn chorn-pond?? like in the acknowledgements it does. but otherwise i read the entire thing feeling really weird about this white woman writing in an asian voice (which just means incorrect grammar and incomplete sentences apparently??). like i get she interviewed him a lot and many asian people do have american accents like this but it’s just weird to me that it’s marketed like SHES writing this in her imagined/perceived “asian voice”. i just wish it could be more clear he basically co-wrote it at that’s why the voice is like that
only thing: why doesn’t it say the book is co-written by arn chorn-pond?? like in the acknowledgements it does. but otherwise i read the entire thing feeling really weird about this white woman writing in an asian voice (which just means incorrect grammar and incomplete sentences apparently??). like i get she interviewed him a lot and many asian people do have american accents like this but it’s just weird to me that it’s marketed like SHES writing this in her imagined/perceived “asian voice”. i just wish it could be more clear he basically co-wrote it at that’s why the voice is like that