Ratings:
Stars: 3/5
Readability: 2/5
Plot: 5/5
Recommend: No

Summary:
Leigh, a half Asian and half White American girl, travels to Taiwan after her mother commits suicide. Desperate for answers after seeing her mother come back to her in the form of a red bird, she hopes to uncover the secrets, forge new relationships, and discover what really happened with the bird.

What I Liked:
From the bat, I could relate. Not really to the main character, but to her mom mostly. I know what it feels like to want to not mention or associate with your family/past life. Not only that, but I often feel a disconnect from my family, since my Mandarin isn't the best and I prefer to use English (also a bunch of other things). I haven't read a book I've related to so much.

What I Didn't Like:
Magical realism sometimes confuses me, (yes, I'm really that dumb). I sometimes can't wrap my head around the fact that a person in the story was a ghost or didn't really exist. Especially if it didn't make sense of how anything would've happened without them there.

Overall:
There are some things I really can't relate to or can understand. I've never really experienced depression, so I can't really say if the portrayal of it in this book was accurate or say much about it.

This book was hard to finish, despite relating, I just felt bad about myself and the characters (hence the three stars).