Review: Go

Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was one of the ebooks I received for free from Amazon's World Book Day 2019. Another World Book Day about North Koreans in Japan, but very different from the previous one I read, A River in Darkness.

Somehow I thought this book might be about the game, but it has nothing to do with it at all. I don't remember it being referenced at all in the book, but maybe I missed it. Or perhaps the 'chess' games were actually go? I don't know.

I absolutely love that my favorite Stephen authors are both referenced in this book. A reference to Stephen Jay Gould's Mismeasure of Man that has direct relevance to the plot of the novel was amazing. Stephen King just gets a bare mention, but hey, they're both in there in the same book, which is awesome.

I've never lived in Japan, but I've been visiting relatives there all my life. This is a side of Japan I've never experienced directly, so it's great to be reading about it.

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