mlboyd23's reviews
88 reviews

this book STRESSED ME OUT

if only they would have an honest conversation…

insists on the dead - and their bodies and even voices - that make up a revolution. brilliantly & devastatingly captures this moment in Korean history.  

intriguing world

gorgeously written & so interested in love and its relationship to time - lengthening it, compressing it, enduring within it - as well as the body and its boundaries and lack thereof. melancholy as hell tho

sweeping portrayal of the life of Koreans in Japan, centered mostly in two sisters-in-law, that was beautifully written and captured SO many dynamics & characters. maybe too many? & the passage of time in the novel was so odd to me. history has forgotten us, the novel begins, but this is precisely where good fiction can intervene.

a confrontation w the language of neoliberalism & the work of unions & the messages we send to others, literally & otherwise & ultimately finding meaning even in a little cliche ridden life. lifted my spirits  

and so we beat on… one of the most beautiful books ever written. and it’s NOT about the American Dream people