![]() ![]() This novel is about the Lee family: James, lonely son of Chinese immigrants, history professor, desperate to fit into American society Marilyn, James’ Caucasian wife and frustrated housewife Nath, their personality-free teenaged son Lydia, their daughter, who – as the novel’s first sentence tells us – is dead and oft-ignored youngest daughter Hannah, who knows everything. And this book manages all of the above without actually sucking. ![]() In addition, the author’s odd choice of a very wide-ranging omniscient point of view undermines the suspense that the author seems to be trying hard to create. ![]() Though readable enough, this novel is noteworthy in the fact that all of its characters seem made of cardboard. circles made up of Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Green Apple, and a half a dozen small local bookstores) and appearing often on shelves devoted to “staff picks.” I’ve been intrigued but ultimately rejected it five or six times, only caving when I passed right by it in the school library and figured that checking it out would be a low-risk way of testing its waters. This is a strange little book – ubiquitous in the circles I walk in (i.e. ![]()
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