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October 2018 - Frankenstein: Prodigal Son
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last updated Nov 01, 2018 08:22AM
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I’m going to need to sit with this one a bit before I rate it. It’s absolutely beautifully written and the way the memoir blends mythology and fact, legend and reality, are so unique. I’ve never read a memoir quite like this.
Even so, I found the story hard to engage with consistently. I’d get pulled into the narrative in fits and starts. Sometimes it was dated language that pulled me out, sometimes the confusion over whether this was meant to be true or not. And the characters are very hard to ...more
Even so, I found the story hard to engage with consistently. I’d get pulled into the narrative in fits and starts. Sometimes it was dated language that pulled me out, sometimes the confusion over whether this was meant to be true or not. And the characters are very hard to ...more
A great telling of culture and life of Chinese-Americans.
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