The Emissary
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Beautiful and haunting, meditation on ability, parenthood and intergenerational relationships. Every other page has a turn of phrase that is liable to wow. Lightness and heaviness mix freely in a brief novel that doesn't overstay its welcome.
Broke my heart and stitched it back up, as if to remind me hearts are to be broken and to heal.
I felt the love for his great-grandchild, and Mumei's abject joie de vivre and youthful sensibility. I loved the talk of linguistics, culture, and geography. The substantial topics of isolation, as a nation and an individual, foreign-ness, change, enduring, vulnerable populations, the stuff of life had me captivated.