Sea Change
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“Immersively beautiful.... A kaleidoscope of originality." —Weike Wang, acclaimed author of Joan is Okay
Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at the aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (Mountain Dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeño). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro's last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager.
When Dolores is sold to a wealthy investor intent on moving her to a private aquarium, Ro finds herself on the precipice of self-destruction. Wading through memories of her youth, Ro realizes she can either lose herself in the undertow of reminiscence, or finally come to terms with her childhood trauma, recommit to those around her, and find her place in an ever-changing world.
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Wunderschönes Buch über Verlust, das Leben und die vielen Unsicherheiten darin.
Ich hab das Buch auf Englisch gelesen. Der Schreibstil war sehr flüssig und verständlich. Die Art wie Dolores beschrieben wurde, war sehr feinfühlig und ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass ein Oktopus einem so ans Herz gehen kann. Die Geschichte zeigt dass im Leben einfach auch Dinge passieren (dürfen), die man nicht immer versteht und trotzdem lohnt es sich einen Weg zu finden weiterzumachen.
i just couldn't pass up the octopus cover!
in Sea Change we get to know ro, who's navigating a breakup that rattled her badly, as well as the difficult relationship with her best friend and her mother, and grief over her lost father. Sea Change is a powerful reflect on grief and healing, family and immigration and intergenerational trauma. gina chung's prose is restraint, yet bursting with emotional depth - a style that is difficult to accomplish, yet chung executes it masterfully. while i expected a bit more adventure and sea creature shenanigans (based on the blurp), i still enjoyed Sea Change very much!
Ein Buch, das ich auch nach dem Abschluss nicht hundertprozentig einordnen kann.. Anfangs empfand ich es als eine sehr niedliche Geschichte, dann nahm das ganze eine ziemliche Wendung und ich war eher genervt vom Selbstmitleid der Protagonistin.. und am Ende konnte ich nicht ganz folgen, was Ro dazu bewogen hat, sich so zu entwickeln. Auch wenn man "ganz nebenbei" einiges über die koreanische Kultur erfahren hat, verstehe ich den Hype leider nicht.
Such a hard review because I enjoyed this book a lot as a quick read and the writing style is soothing but at the same time I feel like I've read that story a hundred times already. Ro's self-pity drove me nuts after a while and I'm really not sure what's so great about her childhood best friend. But I found the portrayal of the relationship with her father appealing because it was that bittersweet mixture of they're not always good people but you still love and miss them to pieces when they're gone.
Description
“Immersively beautiful.... A kaleidoscope of originality." —Weike Wang, acclaimed author of Joan is Okay
Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at the aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (Mountain Dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeño). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro's last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager.
When Dolores is sold to a wealthy investor intent on moving her to a private aquarium, Ro finds herself on the precipice of self-destruction. Wading through memories of her youth, Ro realizes she can either lose herself in the undertow of reminiscence, or finally come to terms with her childhood trauma, recommit to those around her, and find her place in an ever-changing world.
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Wunderschönes Buch über Verlust, das Leben und die vielen Unsicherheiten darin.
Ich hab das Buch auf Englisch gelesen. Der Schreibstil war sehr flüssig und verständlich. Die Art wie Dolores beschrieben wurde, war sehr feinfühlig und ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass ein Oktopus einem so ans Herz gehen kann. Die Geschichte zeigt dass im Leben einfach auch Dinge passieren (dürfen), die man nicht immer versteht und trotzdem lohnt es sich einen Weg zu finden weiterzumachen.
i just couldn't pass up the octopus cover!
in Sea Change we get to know ro, who's navigating a breakup that rattled her badly, as well as the difficult relationship with her best friend and her mother, and grief over her lost father. Sea Change is a powerful reflect on grief and healing, family and immigration and intergenerational trauma. gina chung's prose is restraint, yet bursting with emotional depth - a style that is difficult to accomplish, yet chung executes it masterfully. while i expected a bit more adventure and sea creature shenanigans (based on the blurp), i still enjoyed Sea Change very much!
Ein Buch, das ich auch nach dem Abschluss nicht hundertprozentig einordnen kann.. Anfangs empfand ich es als eine sehr niedliche Geschichte, dann nahm das ganze eine ziemliche Wendung und ich war eher genervt vom Selbstmitleid der Protagonistin.. und am Ende konnte ich nicht ganz folgen, was Ro dazu bewogen hat, sich so zu entwickeln. Auch wenn man "ganz nebenbei" einiges über die koreanische Kultur erfahren hat, verstehe ich den Hype leider nicht.
Such a hard review because I enjoyed this book a lot as a quick read and the writing style is soothing but at the same time I feel like I've read that story a hundred times already. Ro's self-pity drove me nuts after a while and I'm really not sure what's so great about her childhood best friend. But I found the portrayal of the relationship with her father appealing because it was that bittersweet mixture of they're not always good people but you still love and miss them to pieces when they're gone.