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A review by balletbookworm
I Am China by Xiaolu Guo
4.0
PSA: The jacket copy for this book is really inaccurate. Mu is a poet, not a singer. And Jiang leaves China long before Mu goes on a very short tour of the US - maybe 5 collective pages out of the entire book.
The majority of the book explores the relationship between Jiang and Mu and the odd triangle of intimacy it creates with Iona, their translator (who has her own battles, chiefly that she feels disconnected from people). Beautiful writing, occasionally illustrated by "photocopies" of the actual letters or pictures.
The majority of the book explores the relationship between Jiang and Mu and the odd triangle of intimacy it creates with Iona, their translator (who has her own battles, chiefly that she feels disconnected from people). Beautiful writing, occasionally illustrated by "photocopies" of the actual letters or pictures.