book club adventures...this month's book is a bleak foray into poverty and substance abuse.
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book club adventures...this month's book is a bleak foray into poverty and substance abuse. articles about the book say that the author (who is Vietnamese-American) deliberately chose not to write a 'model minority' narrative about rising above your shitty circumstances by your bootstraps. which is a commendable vision.
but the unfortunate effect of that is that nobody in the book really grows or changes, and there isn't much plot to advance in a story where everyone stays the same. i'm about three quarters into the book, so maybe there's still time for things to get more engaging. but right now i just kind of feel depressed every time i pick it up.
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book club adventures...this month's book is a bleak foray into poverty and substance abuse. articles about the book say that the author (who is Vietnamese-American) deliberately chose not to write a 'model minority' narrative about rising above your shitty circumstances by your bootstraps. which is a commendable vision.
but the unfortunate effect of that is that nobody in the book really grows or changes, and there isn't much plot to advance in a story where everyone stays the same. i'm about three quarters into the book, so maybe there's still time for things to get more engaging. but right now i just kind of feel depressed every time i pick it up.
i do respect the choice to write a litfic that features exactly nobody from academia or adjacent to the publishing industry, though. nice to see literary fiction featuring people with real, shitty jobs and problems for once
