A review by your_true_shelf
I Am China by Xiaolu Guo

3.0

I just couldn't love this book, no matter how hard I tried. I warmed to Iona the most and liked hearing about her life in Scotland. However, I never felt that we got to know Mu or Jian as deeply as I would have liked. I think part of the reason I didn't enjoy hearing about them as much was because their parts were in diary or letter format and I don't I like this as much as third person narrative. There was nothing happy about this story. I found it quite depressing. It did, however, give me an insight into how lonely one could feel as an immigrant. I felt deeply sorry for Jian when he was outside of China.
Because of the way I didn't really get to knows Jian & Mu, and because of the sorrow of the story, 2.5 stars.