Book Review - Sula's Voyage

THIS is another Scholastic Asian Book Award 2014 ­finalist.
Initially, the story feels like yet another tale about a young girl who seems ­different from all those around her, and as she grows older, she tries to find out who she really is.
The book begins with our protagonist, a young girl named Sula, leaving her ­grandparents’ house with her parents, after a fight in which her grandmother refers to her as a bastard.
Sula is well aware that she looks different from her parents, and her curiosity about ­herself only grows when she follows her mother to see an old friend who is dying.
While there, she learns things about herself that not only make her ­curious but scared as well.
However, the story is not very original, and the writer takes a while to get to the point.
The ending is rather abrupt as well.
Nonetheless, our ­curiosity about this young girl is piqued from the first chapter onwards.
And it is the need to know more that makes readers want to read the book to the end.