A review by snchard
This Is My Brain in Love by I.W. Gregorio

4.0

This whole book was an emotional rollercoaster! Came for the food porn and adorable romance, stayed for the amazingly accurate description of intrusive thoughts/depression/anxiety (and also the food porn). Reading it was also kind of a bizarre experience because it takes place in Utica and I'm familiar with all the the landmarks they were talking about. It kept throwing me off, because it's described as kind of a podunk town with little diversity, but there's a huge refugee population in Utica and many restaurants with international cuisine. It would make more sense to me (but probably not the majority of readers) if the Wu family saw competition from other small Asian restaurants, or found their niche among the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Burmese restaurants common in Utica.