Monday, March 3, 2014

February Book Reviews

Mao's Last Dancer:  I enjoyed the story about a ballet dancer pulled from village life in communist China, but found that the narrator was too gentle on his own errors. I also would have liked more political information.

The Rent Collector: I love stories about the power of literature and I do believe it call pull people from the slums, but I still found this story naively optimistic.  I felt like the voice telling the story was distinctly American while it was supposed to be a poor uneducated woman living on the trash fields in Cambodia.  I loved the Cambodian folk tales that she included in the text.


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