The sentences and writing style was simple at the story just felt a little disjointed and all over the place. The writing and story just felt, at a more in the weeds level, kind of below the quality that I was writing.
I will be transparent and say I was also read The Satanic Versus by Salman Rushdie at the same time which has very elite writing, so maybe my brain was confuddled, but, others who were reading this as part of my book club felt similar. I just felt like the writing was a little sub par. But for this book, honestly, I was kind of disappointed…. I’ve never read another book by Allende so I have zero comparison of this book to her more famous book The House of the Spirits. I feel like I hear this name super often and people give such high praises. This was a book and an author that I have heard quite a lot about. Allende returns here to themes that have propelled some of her finest work: political injustice, the art of survival, and the essential nature of-and our need for-love.”
At a loss, the professor asks his tenant, Lucia Maraz, a fellow academic from Chile, for her advice.Īs these three lives intertwine, each will discover truths about how they have been shaped by the tragedies they witnessed, and Richard and Lucia will find unexpected, long overdue love. “During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn when Evelyn comes to his house, seeking help. Januin Books tagged books / Disliked by mylibrarycardworeout
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