Vanessa Hua
Auteur van A River of Stars
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Vanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of A River of Stars. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the San Francisco Foundation's James D. toon meer Phelan Award, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Find out more at vanessahua.com. toon minder
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Apart from that, I found the writing too simplistic, almost like I was reading a young adult novel. For example, I really don't care that girls (women?) obsess about what each other thinks - at least, not for 100 pages worth - in such trivial terms. Similarly, her thoughts about her family. So the book should have been much shorter. In contrast, the pregnancy theme was woven throughout the story, had a lot more justification, and I was surprised and disappointed how quickly that was dismissed by the end.
These are just a few things that come to mind. But I can't help mentioning what everyone else found distasteful: powerful men taking sexual advantage of powerless girls. Horrible way to open the story and the abuse continued throughout. (Only reason I continued reading was because the book had been assigned for my book club.) Yes, I understand it likely happened in this case but wow, I did not enjoy reading it again and again.
For all these reasons, I give two stars because although I didn't like it and it had a lot of faults, I did learn some history and was inspired to do some supplementary reading on my own but I would not recommend it to friends. So many other good books, so little time.… (meer)