After the Bloom is a story structured in a commonly used framework - two time periods, two women, a daughter trying to untangle the puzzle of her mother. The broader context is the internment of the Japanese in the United States during World War. The personal story is of a young woman with troubling relationships - her father, her daughter's father, and others she meets at the camp. In this book, the fiction and the history take two different points of focus, making it challenging to engage with.
Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2017/05/after-bloom.html
Reviewed for NetGalley
Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2017/05/after-bloom.html
Reviewed for NetGalley
