Status Updates From Nos cœurs disparus

I'm enjoying it. It's incredibly well-written, I see why it is so lauded. I do wish the themes weren't so heavy handed and motifs on-the-nose, it was presented to me as both YA and litfic but it reads a bit young. Love a kid with a backpack walking through New York following a rumored trail, I eat it up.

Exciting beginning. Picked this up at a local book fair as part of Philly's One Book events - I'm not a huge fan of Celeste Ng but thrilled to take part in Philadelphia's literary scene.

"She began to learn: there was no new thing under the sun."

"Did the pomegranate know, she thought, did it ever wonder where they went, how they turned out. If they'd ever managed to grow. All those bits of its missing heart. Scattered, to sprout elsewhere."