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The Adrift Feeling on the Cover is Very Apt for the Mood of this Novel

Block Seventeen by Kimiko Guthrie

June 20, 2021 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

I’ve been having a hard time sitting down to write this review because, well, I just don’t know. Listening to this audio book left me feeling like there was so much there, and also not enough. And I am torn, and really am not sure how I feel about it at the end of the day.  Block Seventeen by Kimiko Guthrie is told mainly from the perspective of Akiko (who goes by Jane), a half-Japanese, half-white woman living in San Francisco during the recession. Out […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: block seventeen, kimiko guthrie

Lisa Bee's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: block seventeen, kimiko guthrie ·
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