Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear

Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear

2020 • 316 pages

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15

OK this one demands your attention. I was on top of everything during the first third when Matt Kim feels like he's disappearing. But I took my eye off the ball and slowly started to lose the thread. Is this about the invisibility of being an Asian-American male, the unmoored sentiment of being raised a Korean adoptee or maybe it's a multiverse imagining of what your life might have been if you were born and raised in Korea. That there is a you out there that hasn't had to wrestle with minor feelings, being sidelined and othered and has flourished as a result. Maybe?

I lost the thread and Matthew wasn't throwing me a line. Instead I'm left with this weird collection of malapropisms that are part literary dad joke, existential pun and Konglish mangling of Western idioms. Nothing to fear but fear myself and two can play at that shame now live inside my head rent free.

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