I don't know if the original story got lost in the translation, or if I was just missing something, but this book just didn't do it for me. It seemed to ramble a little. I thought it was going to be about her family's history with hair. It did start off like that, when the author states that her hair got cut at 6 months old, but seemed to venture off in a different direction to me as the story went on.

I found the subject matter a little hard to find common ground. I enjoyed the local flavor and a look into local custom historically intriguing but I had little sympathy with the lead character. I found the writing intense(on me) but the characters were well thought out with a great background and links to the past interesting.