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One chapter in and Tracey has written so many things about South East Asian culture and families that I can personally relate to and have never read in a novel before. I can't express how much it means to me to feel represented and to feel like others have had the same experience and that I'm not "other."

One chapter in and Tracey has written so many things about South East Asian culture and families that I can personally relate to and have never read in a novel before. I can't express how much it means to me to feel represented and to feel like others have had the same experience and that I'm not "other."

This is only the second book by a Swedish author that I've picked up and they have such a sense of humour! Similar to The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, this book exudes humour on every page. My kind of funny: it gets you genuinely giggling or smiling in public (like I was on the tram). Doesn't mean it's not a serious novel, far from it. There's also intrigue...

Oh my goodness! I'm so emotionally invested in Queenie's journey at this point. I'm having a hard time putting it down.

Just read the intro and I'm already very impressed with the way this is written.