I don’t really remember what I just read. Like, the writing was good but I didn’t really follow the plot or know what was going on a lot of the time. ( )

This is a connected set of stories and vignettes centered around the arrest of a young woman for controversial poetry in Malaysia. The connections with disappearance of a the daughter of an English man in the 1950s and the brief love affair of a Malaysian engineer with a white woman in NYC are clearer than that of the Muslim vigilante. The stories are glimpses merely, but not altogether lacking depth. ( )