A challenging but rewarding literary achievement. I won’t pretend I tracked every idea as it veered from campus farce to Southern nightmare to urban political satire, stopping along the way to debate the value of protest, tease intra-party pettiness, even dance with the charged world of interracial sexuality. This book has so much to say that’s as relevant today as it was in the 1940s(!) — even if I could use a college seminar to help unpack it all.
This book will make you incredibly hungry and wistfully sad many, many times over the course of its several sweet and eloquent chapters. Zauner uses a simple and honest directness to unpack her relationship to her mother and cultural identity that makes what could be a mopey navel-gazing exercise into a real pleasure to read.
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