Bonnie G.’s Reviews > Taipei Story > Status Update

God, the awkwardness! Boys! Friends! Rules! Parents! Everything is so fraught. Our MC is even more anxious than I was, and with a wider variety of triggers. I don't know if I wanted to remember what that felt like, but also I think I did.

The analysis of language -- how it defines culture, how we learn it, and how that process impacts our understanding of culture -- is exciting and great.

Taiwan is a very different place than it was when I moved there when I was 21, and I am not ABC, but there is still a lot that feels like my experience, and this wonderful book is making me feel hella nostalgic.