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Book Review: “Though I Get Home”
APALA
(2018)
Abstract
At the center of a swirling set of intertwined stories, a young woman named Isabella Sin struggles to turn herself from a small-town girl into a significant poet. Inspired by the rain, she quits her job and moves from her home town of Taiping, Malaysia to the larger city of Kuala Lumpur. Shortly after her move, she is arrested for writing a pair of poems that the government deems obscene. The first story of the collection opens during her hunger strike. Around her, another woman, inspired by Starbucks, considers breaking up with a man who has already broken up with her. An old man gambles with his friends on the weather. A young man flies halfway around the world to vote in an election that he knows is rigged — or that’s what he tells himself.
Keywords
- Short Stories,
- Malaysia,
- Asian American Literature,
- Book Review
Disciplines
Publication Date
April 9, 2018
Citation Information
Molly Higgins. "Book Review: “Though I Get Home”" APALA (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/molly_higgins/33/