Weekend reading roundup

[nanila]

How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it?

Comments

[adrift_etc]

Peculiar and vivid dreams!

How is the story otherwise? I might pick it up (and would read those stories, if you got around to writing them)

[nanila]

It's...hard going, because of the emotional content, which is sort of subsumed under the actual events he's retelling. All of the immigrants described suffered greatly, mostly because of displacement or active harm caused by WWII. And one suffered because he was gay at time when it was believed gayness could be cured by things like electroshock therapy. But the narrative is elegant and moving and worth reading, despite all the tragedy.