UtopiaBunny's Book Journey
"Why shouldn't someone want more?"
I think this is an incredibly well-balanced story, delicately handling the characters and the 2004 Morcambe Bay Cockling Disaster. The afterword by Hsiao-Hung Pai and Julia Rampen provided further insight into the hidden labour of people who feel trapped in hidden labour, without protection, in a society that crumbles around them and forces them to remain invisible.
This book brought my attention to this particular disaster, the exploitation of undocumented Chinese labourers, but how novels can bring about understanding, fiction creates and heightens empathy. I will always hope for a more empathetic world, and the more people read and understand their neighbours, or the invisible people on the shores of a bay, can we built a more caring society.
The relationship that developed between Suling and Arthur was incredible to witness, and Arthur softened his views and welcomed someone new into the fold - a gang of misfits with Electric Auntie.
I think this book felt like butter left out for seasons, the beginning hard, the middle melted with the summer of friendships blooming and realities challenged, and as the story came to the climax, it hardened in the winter. But when the heating turns on, as it will, the butter softens again and our characters remain sweet, rich and smooth.
"Why shouldn't someone want more?"
I think this is an incredibly well-balanced story, delicately handling the characters and the 2004 Morcambe Bay Cockling Disaster. The afterword by Hsiao-Hung Pai and Julia Rampen provided further insight into the hidden labour of people who feel trapped in hidden labour, without protection, in a society that crumbles around them and forces them to remain invisible.
This book brought my attention to this particular disaster, the exploitation of undocumented Chinese labourers, but how novels can bring about understanding, fiction creates and heightens empathy. I will always hope for a more empathetic world, and the more people read and understand their neighbours, or the invisible people on the shores of a bay, can we built a more caring society.
The relationship that developed between Suling and Arthur was incredible to witness, and Arthur softened his views and welcomed someone new into the fold - a gang of misfits with Electric Auntie.
I think this book felt like butter left out for seasons, the beginning hard, the middle melted with the summer of friendships blooming and realities challenged, and as the story came to the climax, it hardened in the winter. But when the heating turns on, as it will, the butter softens again and our characters remain sweet, rich and smooth.
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"Why shouldn't someone want more?"
I think this is an incredibly well-balanced story, delicately handling the characters and the 2004 Morcambe Bay Cockling Disaster. The afterword by Hsiao-Hung Pai and Julia Rampen provided further insight into the hidden labour of people who feel trapped in hidden labour, without protection, in a society that crumbles around them and forces them to remain invisible.
This book brought my attention to this particular disaster, the exploitation of undocumented Chinese labourers, but how novels can bring about understanding, fiction creates and heightens empathy. I will always hope for a more empathetic world, and the more people read and understand their neighbours, or the invisible people on the shores of a bay, can we built a more caring society.
The relationship that developed between Suling and Arthur was incredible to witness, and Arthur softened his views and welcomed someone new into the fold - a gang of misfits with Electric Auntie.
I think this book felt like butter left out for seasons, the beginning hard, the middle melted with the summer of friendships blooming and realities challenged, and as the story came to the climax, it hardened in the winter. But when the heating turns on, as it will, the butter softens again and our characters remain sweet, rich and smooth.