A review by heathero621
From Unincorporated Territory åmot by Craig Santos Pérez

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

3.5

This is a poetry book that talks about Perez' home country of Guam and the people, including his family that live there.  The poetry was very accessible, in that it was easy to understand and follow.  I learned a lot about Guam and the native people from there that I did not know about.  The book does use a lot of native language and I read it, but I have no idea if I was saying in correctly in my head.  There are sometimes translations of what is written.  The problem that I had with the novel is that there are side parts to it that are printed in a very light gray.  I don't know if my sight is worse than I thought it was, but many times I wouldn't even see the lighter writing and would skip over it, or I would see it and then have to really concentrate on reading it because the printing was so light.  I understood the purpose, but I wish that it could've been a little darker.  It really frustrated me when I was reading it.