A review by emergencily
Hao: Stories by Ye Chun

3.75

A collection of short stories centered (mostly) on Chinese women across different times & places in history: in ancient China during the innovation of early writing systems, a pregnant woman during the gold rush in San Francisco hiding in her apartment during anti-Chinese riots, a Chinese woman in modern day USA coping with a stalker and her dismissive white partner, a rural village girl abandoned by her husband who rises to prominence in the Party in the city during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

I enjoyed a few of the stories a lot, but most I felt fairly lukewarm or neutral on. I liked the reoccuring theme through a lot of the stories examining language, linguistics & language barriers.

But honestly sometimes the stories would veer into trope-y, very quintessential tropes of ~Asian American diaspora literature~