brewdy_reader’s Reviews > Taipei Story > Status Update

Well we have gone utter depressing… death, grief processing, melancholy, suicide of siblings, forgotten family history, the Khmer Rouge, the cultural revolution, migration, nationalism, and utter loneliness

JC is an assmunch. Andrew is insufferable. The amount of gaslighting and passive aggressive behavior in this book is astonishing. I hope some character becomes tolerable.

I resonate so much with the shame of not being fluent in the languages of my parents… there is an honesty to her writing, a pettiness to the characters that mirrors freshmen competition, and it’s also very self indulgent

So far this is a little dry for me. The subject matter is interesting enough, as Lily the FMC is off to Taiwan for a summer, with a goal of becoming fluent in Chinese… I resonate with her feeling of otherness but also she’s hard to relate to… I shall report back as I get further in.