Reviews for Katherine

The average rating for Katherine based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-29 00:00:00 Chris Estrada This was a fascinating study of the human spirit, and how it opens or closes in response to what life throws our way. I really appreciated being given the inner view of Zebra's experience - as a child and teen laborer in Maoist China, and a young adult in post-revolutionary China, opening her mind to the ideas of her American teacher - the "foreign devil." Often fiction can give such a deep and visceral sense of time/place/experience. There were a number of passages that were so beautiful that I gasped out loud. I have a feeling I'll hold these ideas and images for a long time, and that they'll inform my understanding of and compassion for people who've lived under oppressive regimes.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-03-15 00:00:00 Jocelyn Gagnon 2.5 ⭐️ It reads a little like a memoir, and the insights into 1980’s China (and thus today’s China) are worthwhile. I found the writing annoying as it consists of staccato sentences, and this lack of flow grated on me. I almost gave it away, but in the last third the story is far more engrossing.