Jessica
Pleasure :: 1 Purpose :: 3 Plot :: 3 Prose :: 4 Personal :: 1
Avg → ⭐️⭐️ ½ rounding down
This won the Pulitzer in 2022 for autobiography/memoir. It was fine. It did some things well -- speaking to the Asian immigrant experience (though not as well as *How Far the Light Reaches*) and recalling the solipsism of college students.
But it steps all over itself with the relentless pretension-ness of that same self-centered college student. It feels like the author is still in that space. Perhaps he is.
I def would have def'd it had it been any longer... It was well-written though -- had very high hopes at the outset, for sure. I guess that Harvard PhD was worth it.
Pleasure :: 1 Purpose :: 3 Plot :: 3 Prose :: 4 Personal :: 1
Avg → ⭐️⭐️ ½ rounding down
This won the Pulitzer in 2022 for autobiography/memoir. It was fine. It did some things well -- speaking to the Asian immigrant experience (though not as well as *How Far the Light Reaches*) and recalling the solipsism of college students.
But it steps all over itself with the relentless pretension-ness of that same self-centered college student. It feels like the author is still in that space. Perhaps he is.
I def would have def'd it had it been any longer... It was well-written though -- had very high hopes at the outset, for sure. I guess that Harvard PhD was worth it.