A year for classics. Another book I read because it was recommended by my mom. I am surprised. Something this dark is not her usual type of read. Set in Vietnam in the 1920's, the autobiographical story of a French family, is told as a remembrance of the author. The novel centers around the affair Duras has as a 15 year old girl with a wealthy Chinese son of a businessman. Her family is poor, her mother psychologically damaged, and her two brothers are sketchy and complicated. Vietnam is a difficult place to be young, poor, and white. There is a lot of pain to go around here.
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