I read Girl in Translation for the January theme read in my online book club, The Reading Cove. And to be honest, it read very much like a memoir, not fiction.
I was engaged and pulled into Kimberly Chang's POV initially, but by the last third I was more or less bored. Nothing really happened and for me it was a pretty generic coming-of-age, migrate from China to America de facto memoir. And I really disliked a very inconsiderate and unforgivable choice Kimberly makes in the end, though the narrative seems to treat it as passable.
Would I recommend Girl in Translation? Not unless you've never read a Chinese immigrant novel before. If you have, this may feel redundant. B-/C+
I was engaged and pulled into Kimberly Chang's POV initially, but by the last third I was more or less bored. Nothing really happened and for me it was a pretty generic coming-of-age, migrate from China to America de facto memoir. And I really disliked a very inconsiderate and unforgivable choice Kimberly makes in the end, though the narrative seems to treat it as passable.
Would I recommend Girl in Translation? Not unless you've never read a Chinese immigrant novel before. If you have, this may feel redundant. B-/C+
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