A review by a_novel_femme
Aloft by Chang-rae Lee

1.0

in general, i have big issues with chang-rae lee, a writer who tries to squash the verbosity of fitzgerald and the taciturn masculinity of hemingway into one voice that wants to preach on how hard it is to be surrounded by difficult asian and/or korean and/or korean american and/or white women all the time. in fact, i could write this exact same thing for his other two novels and it would still hold true.

at least a gesture life and native speaker rouse me to debate others on how much they irk me at times; with aloft, i just kept falling asleep.