A review by americancrow
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee

3.0

i read this book because of its publication date, being a novel centering around an immigrant experience just ahead of the turn of the millennium and 9/11. perhaps if i had read it in 1999 i would have been more struck, but unfortunately the term that comes most readily to mind on reading is pedestrian. i forced myself to finish so i could check it off here, but could have and would have put it down at almost any point. i really did not care how things ended for any of the characters.

the accounts of the war camps are interesting.