I have never read a book written like this before. The content in it is very good, but it is not written like a normal story. It is written in stanzas, so more poem like. I have a very hard time classifying this a novel, it feels more nonfiction to me. It was a very quick read. I read the whole book in just a few hours. As a brown girl myself, I appreciated the light the content of this book sheds on different cultures, immigration and colonization.