A review by santhanakana
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

5.0

I thoroughly enjoyed memoirs but was wildly shocked to discover the whole foreword was fiction! What do u mean this is not based on a real story ?????????? That being said I ate this shit up!!!!!! I was soo invested in chiyo’s journey in becoming Sayuri the geisha that it was so easy to forget that this book was written by a white man. It felt so real and authentic!!! Clearly babe slayed the research and it was a fantastic introduction to Japanese geisha culture for someone who knows nothing about it!