A review by paulap
An I-Novel by Minae Mizumura

reflective slow-paced

2.75

This is an interesting book about the author grappling with the duality of growing up in Japan and then moving to the US, but never really fitting there. The book talks a lt about art and language, since the author studied languages at a graduate level. I enjoyed the discussions on Japanese, English, French, the power of writing in certain languages, like your mother tongue, as opposed to the more marketable English. However, when it comes to the autobiographical bits, there is too much detail about things that did not seem that interesting. Personally, I also could not connect to the character since we have very different viewpoints in life. Overall, a good book but probably not for me.