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http://nytimes.com/2010/09/12/books/review/Hoffman-t.htm

Writing in the Boston Globe, Diane Wright called the novel "a beautifully written, complex story of self-discovery."

http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/08/17/bitter-in-the-mouth/ In a less favorable review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Joan Frank observed, "Truong's writing is workmanlike, its energy sustained, and now and again it yields a lovely line: 'Another word for pray was wish, and only children wished.' But Linda's tone to me often sounded as if she were reciting a series of grievances, secure in the knowledge they will appall."

https://www.google.com/amp/www.sfgate.com/books/amp/Bitter-in-the-Mouth-by-Monique-Truong-3175852.php

In the Los Angeles Times, Diane Leach wrote, "Truong's bone is the outsider's plight, and her pen is a scalpel, laying perfect words down along that nerve until even the happiest reader understands what it means to forever stand apart from your family and the larger society you inhabit."

In his review in the New York Times, Roy Hoffman called the book "a moving investigation of invented families and small-town subterfuge, a search for self heightened by the legacy of Vietnam and the flavors of language."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/books/review/Hoffman-t.html