by Cara Chow
This book is an in-between for young adult and children. I also needed a bit of light reading while combating heat-induced headaches. In my education classes, the students and the teachers discuss the problem with bullying that is occurring in our schools. Indicators, profiling, and motives are tur...
Poignant. Scary. An unflinching look at what happens when parents refuse to let go. Of the necessity of distance between mother and child. I wouldn't say that I liked it but that it unsettled me. I wish I could say it was an exaggeration but I know better.
Every once in awhile I come across a book that really hits me emotionally and Cara Chow's Bitter Melon is one of those books. It filled me with pleasure, a bit of sadness and a some triumph. The characters just jump off the page and the dialogue just flows perfectly. This story is set in the 1980...
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Could not put this one down. Wow. I can not imagine myself in Frances' shoes. Great debut novel!
Originally reviewed at Here There Be Books.So: Bitter Melon. There's been some drama about this book, mostly because I think it came out around the same time as Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and people were kind of like "ANOTHER book about an obsessive Chinese mother?"Well, yeah. But it's more a b...
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