![]() ![]() But I didn’t love it, and that was disappointing. It wasn’t a bad book at all, and I did like a lot about it. I just didn’t like it as well as I wanted to. The book was technically well written, Ko did everything right in crafting the tale she had to tell. But first, I thought it was just an ok novel. ![]() It is hard to organize my thoughts about it concisely so I probably won’t try too hard. There’s a lot we can say about this book. Over the years, Deming/Daniel struggles to fit in anywhere and is haunted by the thought that his mother abandoned him. ![]() Eventually, Deming is given into the foster system and adopted by the Wilkersons, a white couple living in rural upstate New York, who promptly rename him Daniel. One day, Polly goes to work and doesn’t come home. She has her son, Deming, and works at various jobs to support him, living first in what is basically a flophouse with a dozen other women and then with her boyfriend, Leon his sister, Vivian and Vivian’s son, Michael. She left her small village in China to come to America for a better life as so many people have before her. Peilan “Polly” Guo arrives in NYC at the age of 19, pregnant and in debt up to her eyeballs to a loan shark. ![]()
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