I thought the complexity of it all was very well written about.
The immigrant experience - hating and loving your new country, missing and despising where you come from. I’ll have more nuanced thoughts (I hope) in my bookclub discussion but for the sake of telling myself I’ve reviewed this, these are my favorite topics/things the book brought up: This is just an ‘it’s not you, it’s me’ thing). A lot happened but it all felt ‘same same’ (even though it wasn’t, I guess. But I felt this book was a bit political at times and it tried to start too many discussions - which makes sense and it’s realistic, but it just became dull after a while. I like immigrant stories, especially if I’m seeing a woman dealing with a more open society versus a culture that ‘traps’ her into submission. I enjoyed the first 30% of the book way more than the rest of it. I had heard about it but it’s one of these books that you know of but you never pick up, so glad I had an excuse to read it! I am not sure I would’ve picked up this book if it weren’t for my book club.
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