To be honest I can't even remember if I fully finished this book or not. It made me sad in a personal way, not necessarily because it was a sad story (it is.) But because it reminded me of someone I used to know and be very close to. I don't talk to this person anymore- but I cared about them for so long, and I left them behind in that sad world that Oscar lives in. Sadness, family regret, generational resentment, misogyny, drugs...
It makes me wonder what else I could have done, or if I should have tried to stay...?
Also, I borrowed it from Maggie who told me that Junot Diaz was being accused of sexual harassment. It gave me a weird feeling. I never even looked into it, so who knows if he was falsely accused or if that should affect how I read him? It was hard to read his highly sexual descriptions of women thinking that perhaps those accusations are real in any case...
When I heard the title I thought it was going to be a story about an Asian Boy Genius and his adventures. This is not the case.
It is very well written. It pulls you in for sure. But it may be too intense for a pregnant woman like me, so maybe that's why I maybe never finished it. My thoughts are so muddled with this book- Perhaps I'll try to go back and see if I did finish it or not. For now, I'll let it be an emotion of the past for me.
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Total: 4448 (?)
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