A review by anniecheng04
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong

4.0

While I’m a sucker for the long-drawn, indulgent descriptions, the plot never goes anywhere. It’s useful to digest as a piece of queer historical fiction, and introduces the race, class, and gender politics of the French-Vietnamese world in various ways. However, as others have pointed out, I too am disappointed by cultural inaccuracies and the stifled narrative.
Might pick it up again just to re-absorb her beautifully poetic style, though.