A review by xtie
Little Reunions by Eileen Chang

3.0

this was a slog at times but by the end I deeply appreciated how Eileen Chang captures the bitter sweetness of large and bickering (and bitter) traditional Chinese families - I finished it while in bed in my mothers home and felt a weird synchronicity, even though materially our families aren’t much alike. That being said, this feels like a posthumously published work - temporally unfocused, with a sense of futurity introduced that ended up being dropped and never expanded upon. I wonder how it would have read if it could have been worked on with an editor.