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A review by semperlunaris
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
2.0
Given as a birthday gift from a friend and read in 2015.
I remember enjoying the aspect of reading a genre that was totally different from my then usual: a non-white author talking about a non-white experience, contemporary, short stories. I did feel uncomfortable about the way the narrator/s referred to women; The man/men were horrible and didn't learn anything (but maybe that's the point? These male characters are forever doomed to repeat their mistakes because they don't have the critical thinking to reflect and realise that they are the problem?)
While it's been 8 years since i've read it, I wouldn't revisit it again to see if my opinion changed as I remember how I felt while I was reading it in the first place, and it was icky.
I remember enjoying the aspect of reading a genre that was totally different from my then usual: a non-white author talking about a non-white experience, contemporary, short stories. I did feel uncomfortable about the way the narrator/s referred to women; The man/men were horrible and didn't learn anything (but maybe that's the point? These male characters are forever doomed to repeat their mistakes because they don't have the critical thinking to reflect and realise that they are the problem?)
While it's been 8 years since i've read it, I wouldn't revisit it again to see if my opinion changed as I remember how I felt while I was reading it in the first place, and it was icky.