Katia Garcia Garcia itibaren 36031 Chiesa VI, İtalya
This started off pretty well, I thought, with the writer speaking directly to her subject (a turn-of-the-century Chinese prostitute in San Francisco). Bold post-modernish device, promising setting. But then she gets more and more heavy-handed, and after a while the studiedly spare prose really starts to feel like it's trying way too hard for *something* (one is never quite sure what, alas). And then it all goes *really* bad when the writer begins to load her politics (mostly feelings about immigration & the place of Asian immigrants in the US *today*) onto a tale that just can't bear that weight.