Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The Year of the Rat by Grace Lin

★★★★½

It's hard to bring myself to call a children's novel "amazing", so it's not quite 5 stars, but I do think it's even better than The Year of the Dog, which I gave 4 stars.

It's basically more of the same, very much like The Year of the Dog, but many of the issues encountered are more sensitive. The main character, Pacy/Grace, struggles with issues of identity in ways she hadn't before. Plus, a number of passages, including stories told by Pacy's mother, even made me cry, they were so touching.

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