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I loved this book so much. It's full of complicated mother daughter relationships, grief, joy, and love. Being a mixed Asian woman myself, I found myself completely pulled into the complex relationship with your heritage and therefore your own family. It's a painful and confusing space but it's full of love, longing, and a full heart.
This book is a classic delight that is a road trip where the journey is about so much more than the destination. A story where you realize along the way why you're on the road in the first place. It's the long car ride where you start to understand your mother in ways that you never understood her before. The realization that your mother is probably pulled to and from her culture just as much as you are. This book is the moment we realize that we aren't so different after all.
This story is absolutely beautiful and I'm so honored to have been able to read it, and so thankful that it exists. It's so infrequent we get stories by mixed authors where the characters are explicitly mixed. It's diaspora multiplied by two and this journey is one we all take, whether we're on the way to Graceland or just adulthood. Thank you, Kristen Mei Chase for this story.
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This book is a classic delight that is a road trip where the journey is about so much more than the destination. A story where you realize along the way why you're on the road in the first place. It's the long car ride where you start to understand your mother in ways that you never understood her before. The realization that your mother is probably pulled to and from her culture just as much as you are. This book is the moment we realize that we aren't so different after all.
This story is absolutely beautiful and I'm so honored to have been able to read it, and so thankful that it exists. It's so infrequent we get stories by mixed authors where the characters are explicitly mixed. It's diaspora multiplied by two and this journey is one we all take, whether we're on the way to Graceland or just adulthood. Thank you, Kristen Mei Chase for this story.
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What a delightful amount of snarky. I got a bit lost somewhere in here when the crime was going off the walls but I was able to stay grounded in the critique of the patriarchy. This book is funny and full of sass with biting social commentary. What a fun ride!
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This is the 1920's book I feel like I've been waiting for my whole life. I usually find that I get bored with historical fiction but Desi Mesa did such a great job with this.
The representation being treated so normal, but not erasing how dangerous it was to be different at the time, is something I see so rarely in historical fiction. This is a story that involves the mob (something I'm painfully disinterested in most of the time) but it was just the right amount to show their influence at the time without being ABOUT the mob.
Honestly, I loved this way more than anticipated. Thank you so much Desi!
Plus you know I love mixed rep
The representation being treated so normal, but not erasing how dangerous it was to be different at the time, is something I see so rarely in historical fiction. This is a story that involves the mob (something I'm painfully disinterested in most of the time) but it was just the right amount to show their influence at the time without being ABOUT the mob.
Honestly, I loved this way more than anticipated. Thank you so much Desi!
Plus you know I love mixed rep
I'm actually really impressed with the way that this was written. I don't usually like memoirs but I'm a big fan of the way that Constance switched between first and third person and used "making a scene" as a multi-level metaphor. It's a really fun writing style and I was honestly gripped by it the entire time.
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Okay I had no idea what I was in for when I picked up this book and it was way more gorey than anticipated. It's really great though! Just be aware when heading into this one! We love fighting back and we love being realistic about how that might forever change us
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I love joan he and this is no exception. though it was like WAY different than I thought it would be joan is amazing
Beautiful, stunning, loved the social commentary being interwoven with witches. It's just speculative enough where the entire novel feels like we could so easily slip back into laws like this. Especially in the world where we live today.
I've had Lakewood on my list for quite some time and I think now I'm going to have to visit my backlog and read it.
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I've had Lakewood on my list for quite some time and I think now I'm going to have to visit my backlog and read it.
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