A review by ellaarose
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee

3.0

I'm really unsure on my rating for this. The topic is impirtant, but heavy, and other reviewers have pointed out that these stories are rarely told from an asian woman's perspective so I do think it was an important read. But I don't think this book was very tidy, the pacing was off, I was confused (and bored) for the first 100 pages and the link between Kevin and Wang Di was too tenious and they were sort of written the same way....

I think this may have resonated wirh me more if i knew Singapore, maybe that is Lee's target audience. Despite this I couldn't help but compare this book to pachinko, although their only similarity is the time period. I think pachinko does a lot more to bring you into the experience of each character, thejr experiences of each country and their otherness, something this book could have benefitted from.