This is a very high 3 star. The beginning and end were really good and the middle was interesting in its own right, but they felt like two different narratives—the immigrant story in the middle and the fantasy that bookends it. The excitement and energy of the fantasy has no real bearing on the middle of the story, while the resolution—excellent in its own right—needed much less in the middle. The two tones were both good, but they didn't always function as a harmony, more like two symphonies alternating that treat the same topic. Both are good, but the logic of putting them together sometimes escaped me.