A review by patrick_marr
Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach

4.0

It took me a while to get into this book (but I am a 62 year old white male), but eventually it took hold. I grew up in OC and was there when the Vietnamese refugees first arrived during at the close of the Vietnam War, and have watched the Asian assimilation since. I like the variety of cultures there, and it was refreshing to read a book from an Asian character’s viewpoint. I also liked how the characters were ‘fleshed out’, not just 2-dimensional facades. They were intelligent, well expressed and interesting, not “valley girls”. It was nice to see (young) women taking charge and characters doing “the right thing” regardless of sex or sexual orientation.