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“Delisle's conscious artistic approach to life is the biggest feature that recommends this piece.
Joe Girard wrote this review Friday, November 9 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The frantic, often jarring, time jumps make it difficult to judge this as one might judge a memoir narrative. After a hundred pages it becomes flipping through a friend's photo album of an exotic vacation. Only the friend chose to snap off story-photos of more secret, sombre, and isolated moments of their trip.
Benefiting from Delisle's conversational confession tone, snippets come off as sequential as letters in the alphabet, telling a story that progresses in funny and touching microcosms. The macrocosm of the work is untimately a bit as unsatisfying as Delisle's stay in China.
Too scurrying and rapid, without a well-conceived through-line. But beautifully rendered.”
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