I really struggled with this book  not in the way of wanting to put down the book for good. do not get me wrong I enjoyed reading this book and I successfully finished it really contended. However, now looking back at the last few weeks of reading this, there were moments I just could not fathom some parts as Chang's descriptions are just mercilessly raw. She would start a normal sentence and ends it up in the most disgustingly adorable fashion. This type of language I have only seen on poems so far. The descriptions about piss, shit, saliva etc were overwhelming. At all times it felt like an exaggerated too much information scenario on the author's part. However, the story started to make sense by the last 1/3 of it. The book title itself being "Bestiary", we could not expect anything less than the imagery Chang has used. 

The use of Chinese folklore of Hu-Gu-Po the inspiration behind the tiger-human, Ge-gu: the myth of feeding your thigh meat to your sick parents, also the Crab stories and the "hole" that feeds on birdcages and goose meat and bringing back letters from Ama(the grandmother of the protagonist) all these details enhances the weirdness of this story to the maximum regardless this is a magical-realism book. I read this in June for the pride month. I just love Chang was able to write about the lesbian relationship and even about parental-daughter relationships in such a raw language.