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A review by longbeachyreads
Others Were Emeralds by Lang Leav
4.0
I think I really like these quiet Australian novels (The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling). One moment Ai and her teenage friends are being harassed for their Asian heritage, and you're thinking, "okay, this is not so bad" and the next minute you're sobbing, and it's the body heaving variety.
This may be marketed as a YA novel -- and there are definitely scenes and behaviors that will put you right back in high school -- but it also deals with a lot of mature themes and trauma. The novel is split into two parts - with about 70% recounting senior year circa 1997 and the remainder Ai's early college years. I preferred Part 1, but it may just be that it had more space to develop.
Great for fans who love strong female friendships -- and seeing them tested -- while managing all the feelings of first love.
This may be marketed as a YA novel -- and there are definitely scenes and behaviors that will put you right back in high school -- but it also deals with a lot of mature themes and trauma. The novel is split into two parts - with about 70% recounting senior year circa 1997 and the remainder Ai's early college years. I preferred Part 1, but it may just be that it had more space to develop.
Great for fans who love strong female friendships -- and seeing them tested -- while managing all the feelings of first love.
I treasured each new epiphany like a jewel in my palm, something shiny and filtering to be admired and examined from every angle and then stored away with the others. Some jewels were more like polished stones. Some were semiprecious. Others were emeralds. At times I felt as though I was unearthing something that was better left buried. But I couldn’t help myself.
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