A.K. LEE

Guess who just watched Crazy Rich Asians? The movie is frothy perfection. Beautiful settings, beautiful actors, beautifully Asian story about family disapproval vs Love. It's all about kaki lang (our own people) and those who just... aren't. Stories about outsiders and insiders certainly strike a chord in these days when everyone wants to define their identity and delineate the lines between Us and Them. Crazy Rich Asians (the movie - I've not read the book) makes it clear th

Their love was unstoppable. Their life was a lie. And that was how Julie Cohen's latest novel, Together, drew me into the story. This review will avoid spoilers because to give away any of it is a disservice to the story. Julie Cohen uses her carefully effortless writing to embrace readers into a loving life warmly knitted together by Robbie and Emily, before pulling at the stitches to reveal the core that had formed that loving relationship. Speaking as a reader, I was absor