Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie [in Library Journal]
05 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Japanese, Repost
While Asha Lemmie's debut – about the tribulations of an illegitimate, mixed-race granddaughter of a cousin to the royal Japanese family – might not be perfect, she certainly deserves better than this lazy aural travesty. Floundering, misrepresentative audiobook adaptations have been rerecorded and rereleased –...