Shami’s Reviews > A Harem Boy's Saga - I - Initiation; A Memoir by Young > Status Update

This book improves in leaps and bounds. Some of the writing in part 2 is beautiful. Part 1 is an interesting memoir of bay from a wealthy family growing up in the 50's and 60's in Kuala Lumpa. Part 1 may be a true story. Part 2 when he travels to England to attend boarding school is less believable, but the writing is much better and less self-indulgent.

Who does so much Asian gay fiction promote the superstitions that something the boy's mother did made him gay?

Also, why the stereotype that femininity is a necessary characteristic of being gay? Straight men are just as likely to be effeminate as gay men.

I will keep reading but disappointing so far.