A beautiful, intellectual story relayed in sharp fragments brimming with cultural critique. Told from the perspective of an un-named Chinese Anthropology doctoral student in Brexit England. Her lover is German, British, and Australian. Their languages mingle but don't always line up―some feelings/thoughts/states are better expressed in one tongue than another. These languages, as well as the characters' differences in gender and culture, create the nuanced atmosphere of the narrative. Read this book if you enjoy literary fiction and are looking for something reflective, bittersweet/melancholy, and stylistically complex.Publisher description:
A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program―and to begin a new life―just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build a life together.