The idea of the book / plot seemed interesting enough: the story of Tony an Chinese immigrant in the USA, his daughter Tammy and of Oliver, a white lawyer who Tony meets through his work as a doorman and who kind of gets involved / becomes friends with them. I keep it vague because I don't want to give away too much of the plot. All in all I felt let down by the book, maybe because I expected it to be a different story. Tony's struggles and his drive to provide a better life for his daughter felt real and realistic, also the difficult father / daughter relationship.

We "meet" those three people over the years and the narrator changes in each chapter, which maybe made it difficult for me to connect with either one more than just superficially. Oliver's character was a bit weird and for the longest time I was wondering what his point in the plot was or why I should have been interested in his backstory.

I thought what happened in the end was over-the-top and stupid and to be honest I felt like I had wasted my time with this book, as interesting as the summary on the back made it seem at first.

[I'm not rating books]