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The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
The first two chapters of The Swimmers, ‘The Underground Pool’ and ‘The Crack’ are highly reminiscent of the author’s acclaimed The Buddha in the Attic. Like that novel The Swimmers at first seems to implement a playful choral ‘we’ as our perspective. The ‘we’ in question are the people who regularly swim at a local…
3 STARS, Adult, ageing, Alzheimer, America, asian american, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, books about writers, Contemporary, DEATH, different styles (1st/2nd/3rd povs), female authors, gay side characters, greek chorus, GRIEF, HUMOR, interconnected stories, japanese american author, lgbtq+ side, MEMORY, mothers & daughters, My reviews, place as character, playful style, published in 2022, read in 2022, reading, satire, self-inserts, sports, subject over characters/story, The Swimmers -
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Perhaps I should have not read Goodbye, Vitamin on the heels of finishing Chemistry by Weike Wang, maybe then I would have found Khong’s novel to be more witty and original than I actually did. The scenario too brought to mind another novel I read fairly recently, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, which also centres on…
1st pov, 3 STARS, academia, Adult, Alzheimer, America, American, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, break-ups, Contemporary, contemporary malaise, ennui, family, fathers & daughters, female authors, forgiveness, Goodbye Vitamin, HUMOR, illness, loneliness, MEMORY, mental health, millennial, My reviews, PUBLISHED IN 2017, quirky reads, Rachel Khong, read in 2021, reading, teachers
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