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Sour Heart

by Jenny Zhang

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Mel said: " I'm at 60% and need to take an emotional break from this novel. While it's written really well in a way that effectively depicts the generational traumas passed down through Chinese immigrants in such an amazingly short amount of text per story, and ...more "

Apr 26, 2025 08:40PM · see review

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