Chris Nibley

Should have stayed in Burma

Revisado: 03-23-17

My title is mostly referencing the storyline, as I found the book to be less and less interesting the further it got from the point that the author and her family left Burma. Until that point the book was mostly the story of Burma, through the course of its modern transformation, told in conjuction with the story of one of its most prominent families (the authors'). Had the book ended when they left Burma I would give it five stars as it was both entertaining and very enlightening. However, after they left their homeland the book noticeably changed to be almost entirely about the author and her family, which I found to be indulgent on the authors' part. I could have forgiven her had the story come back to Burma in the end, but she went even further from her original subject and told us all about her grandfather and his escapades in Africa. And I was left with the feeling that she is somehow more connected to Africa than to Burma as she went on and on about the African antelope her grandfather caught and sold to an American zoo. Even her final passage is about locking eyes with a cheetah of all things. I don't know if I've ever been so let down by an ending. If she didn't have anything to say about Burma after she left, the she should have stopped the book there.

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