Rootless

by Stephanie Sun

A contemporary immigrant tale takes a surreal turn.

Genres: Short Stories

Unknown Binding

Reviews

[Jan Rice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rooting around in a Goodreads friend's page, I stumbled upon and read her short story Rootless, which has germinated, sprouted and spread in my brain. She has sown a powerful metaphor. Or, maybe, it was there all along, waiting to be shown; and then its deep implications for history, religion, sociology, politics, and, certainly, the way we treat one another, are there for the seeing.

Oh, if I got going I could riff on this topic--but then my words could spread like kudzu, obliterating the underlying structure. I'll skip the thousand words and go with a picture.

The protagonist, Si-Chee, knows what has denuded her landscape but, as is sometimes the human condition, doesn't know the whys or wherefores. No wonder she's up in the air! She considers and rejects as improbable one traditional explanation, and since no others are obvious, she's close to being a headcase. My resonating with her feelings was not so much personal as it was picking up reverberations at some deep level.

I read this three times. Amazon first put it straight on the cloud, but getting it on Kindle and sitting back with my feet up allowed me to take in more of the author's penetrating imagery.

Recommended!

[Olethros · Rating 3 out of 5]

-Alegoría sobre la inmigración.-

Género. Relato.

Lo que nos cuenta. Una familia inmigrante en USA no tiene raíces porque Singapur, de donde venían, ha desaparecido.

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[Sheila · Rating 3 out of 5]

This short story was free on Amazon kindle, and since I do enjoy checking new authors and genres out, I decided to give it a go to see what I thought.

The story was well written, and thought provoking. It deals with the fictional destruction of Singapore, and the feelings of Si-Chee, a Singapore born woman, now living in the USA with her husband and son, on the destruction of her homeland.

What I enjoyed most about this short book was Si-Chee's mother, and her conversation with her daughter while they were shopping at a large warehouse store. But then moms often do have the common sense answers and reasoning to things.

If you like short stories, this one is worth checking out.

[Somyajeet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Displaced yet well-placed...A story of a family leaving their country for better opportunities, be rootless there then visit the homeland, destroyed, of course. The story was little too short, ending too quickly in mid without any satisfying development.