A review by shannahtan
The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh

emotional hopeful slow-paced

3.75

I struggled to get into this. I love that it ends up set in Seattle. It was just a little slow. I can understand how hard it was to be a poet in a Korean family. It must have been so hard to grow up with you parents in a different country so far away. Her mom is complex because she clearly misses her daughter, thinks about her, and is also trying to tell herself and her daughter that she’s a good mother. 
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