Recommended with reservations.

Reviewing White Ghost Girls, Judy Fong Bates writes:

“What can you give me?” is the opening line of Alice Greenway’s debut novel, White Ghost Girls . For Kate, the adolescent narrator of the story, this is a question with no satisfactory answer, one that resonates with urgency and vulnerability as she recounts the painful summer of 1967 when her world spun out of control.

Kate and her older sister, Frankie, are Americans, living with their parents in Hong Kong, a safe place for the family yet close enough for regular visits from their father, who works as a war photographer in Vietnam. Their beautiful but distant mother has chosen to follow her husband to Hong Kong, fearing that if she remained in the United States, he might find a mistress or become addicted to war itself.

Read the rest of the review at The Washington Post.