The story in Indravalli blooms, unique to the setting, with a persuasive love anchoring Poornima and Savitha amidst poverty and patriarchal oppression. The titled theme however, despite being drummed at the reader, begins to lose coherence after successions of misery are planted along the pages. Savitha especially has … Read more
At the side of the central subjects, I identified so much with Brittney’s realisation of and being reconciled to her interpersonal skills and social aura.
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Struggles presented as universal take on a quality of mocking delusion when the excess of protagonists (only male voices) all become famous millionaires at the top of their fields who own fabulous and plural homes and have access to private jets and Alhambra strolls. The decided main character … Read more
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I enjoyed reading most about his return visit to Hong Kong, his personal reflections on identity and belonging. Even tempered with self-deprecation, the rest is a little bit too in the belly of noxious standards of success and masculinity. I would be like his father, though, and … Read more
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I like the artwork and intention but the writing is awkward to troublesome. There’s a white feminist implication that ‘of course’ racism didn’t exist in France. Two women incidental to a featured woman are called ‘jealous shrews’. Just a couple of examples.
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A collection of marriage- and baby-normative stories with nearly identical protagonists. All formidably written of course.
Capably written single-formula stories that are casually fatphobic, ableist, dismissive of the other while centring another ‘other’.
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