I'm not really sure how to review this except to jokingly say that "poets should not write books" but I do think it gets a bit overly-invested in the HOW of every sentence rather than the overall WHAT it is trying to get across, and yes the individual sentences are quite good, but on the whole I didn't connect with the story and it made me feel kind of sad and anxious. A lot of the content is emotionally rough (animal cruelty, rape, cancer, death, parental abuse, homophobia, war). It's a deeply autobiographical novel so it feels Important and like I am supposed to be Learning Something from it about the immigrant experience and I don't know it just made me tired.