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A review by marry_lhors
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
3.0
3.5⭐️
I read this book because one of my favourite authors, Caroline Dawson, quoted it as one of her main inspiration for her book « Là où je me terre ».
Sour Heart is a collection of short stories that are all somewhat linked (characters from previous short stories appear throughout the book). All the stories are narrated from a different Chinese girl’s perspective who immigrated to the USA, a much needed narrative that needs to be heard more. The prose of Zhang is beautiful, tinted with humour by time, but always raw and even harsh (this is not a light read).
I absolutely loved the first short story « We love you Crispina », but I found it difficult to get into some of the other ones. And I do agree with other critiques saying that there was some redundancy between the different stories, and as a reader I sometimes got mixed up between the stories and characters. Overall, I give this novel a 3.5 rating!
I read this book because one of my favourite authors, Caroline Dawson, quoted it as one of her main inspiration for her book « Là où je me terre ».
Sour Heart is a collection of short stories that are all somewhat linked (characters from previous short stories appear throughout the book). All the stories are narrated from a different Chinese girl’s perspective who immigrated to the USA, a much needed narrative that needs to be heard more. The prose of Zhang is beautiful, tinted with humour by time, but always raw and even harsh (this is not a light read).
I absolutely loved the first short story « We love you Crispina », but I found it difficult to get into some of the other ones. And I do agree with other critiques saying that there was some redundancy between the different stories, and as a reader I sometimes got mixed up between the stories and characters. Overall, I give this novel a 3.5 rating!