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A review by lunabbly
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
4.0
Umm this book!!! Gave me life!
I had never thought about writing about eating and taste until I read Monique Truong. The way she interweaves conflict with taste, taste of words, flavorful conflicts with regurgitation of feeling is amazing and so well-done (all puns intended). Although her writing is white-centric in a white fantasy land, which is curious to me. She does a basic job of critiquing the white gaze and whiteness, but it's not deep enough for me to rate this a 5.
As a fellow Vietnamese woman, I do sense a feeling of familiar identity with her writing and the way she describes taste that is quite delicious and difficult to shake off. I could shake off the pretend white fantasy land though.
I had never thought about writing about eating and taste until I read Monique Truong. The way she interweaves conflict with taste, taste of words, flavorful conflicts with regurgitation of feeling is amazing and so well-done (all puns intended). Although her writing is white-centric in a white fantasy land, which is curious to me. She does a basic job of critiquing the white gaze and whiteness, but it's not deep enough for me to rate this a 5.
As a fellow Vietnamese woman, I do sense a feeling of familiar identity with her writing and the way she describes taste that is quite delicious and difficult to shake off. I could shake off the pretend white fantasy land though.