ARC gifted by the publisher

I loved the themes of exploring diaspora, the American dream, reinventing oneself to fit in, processing trauma and how that affects us.

There’s this paragraph towards the end of the book talking about how people only like him for the persona he invented to survive. “… and that I couldn’t keep doing him anymore, but that everyone missed that guy and hated me for not being able to maintain him, to keep him conjured up…” and this totally wrecked me