Solo Dance

The narrator, even though we learn her name, is mostly referred to simply as she. Born in Taiwan, but after a shocking event, to escape her past, she moves to Japan. But like in Taiwan, she can’t accept herself and be open about being a lesbian.

Solo Dance is quite a dark and depressing novel that includes sexual violence, homophobia, shame, mental health, suicide ideation, and even idealizing suicide. I needed quite some time to get into the story. At first, I couldn't feel for the narrator. But after a while, I found this novel, as a whole, to be very good. It is full of literary references to Japanese and Taiwanese authors that are mostly unknown to me, and I will check them out.

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Details:

• author: Kotomi Li
  
• full title: Solo Dance
  
• genre: literary fiction
• format/type: bookfiction
• country: japan, taiwan
  
• topics: #lgbt,
  
• publisher: World Editions
  
• publish date: 07.06.2022
  
• pages: 192

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙.5

   

This was her solo dance. And now that the dance had begun, she had to see it through to the end

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