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bibliobrandie's review
4.0
Characters’ lives woven together through different voices and stories, a collection of strong women, historic elements...so many ingredients that I enjoy in a good story!
nichecase's review against another edition
2.0
i liked this but i did feel lost a lot of the time, mostly at the end. (which i think was intentional on some level, but i wasn't really a fan.) i almost should have anticipated that: this is a novel where many of the characters are at some point in the novel lost in a manic episode. and that is a structure that holds throughout the novel - all of the characters dabble in some sort of fantasy. it's a book about the extreme, and accordingly centres itself on mania.
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, whether it is celia's love letters, utterly removed from the everyday but still possible, felicia's religious devotion (not that santeria is in itself manic but even the other santeros are worried by the summer of coconuts), or lourdes' conversations with her dead fatherjess_mango's review
4.0
"Dreaming in Cuban" reads a lot like a book by Marquez or Allende. The novel focuses on the lives of 3 women from a Cuban family, each telling a story from their perspective. 3.5 stars.
lsparrow's review
4.0
one thing I enjoyed about this book was the many perspectives that came through. I found the ending was a little flat for me.
herm333s's review
3.0
3.70***** stars
Pretty nice.
Glad I finally get to experience one Latin American writer that does not disappoint me.
Her writing in English somehow manages to flow with the peculiarities of Spanish. (I don't exactly know how to explain that...)
The magical realism elements were perfectly subtle and surely helped craft one bittersweet Cuban family saga.
Pretty nice.
Glad I finally get to experience one Latin American writer that does not disappoint me.
Her writing in English somehow manages to flow with the peculiarities of Spanish. (I don't exactly know how to explain that...)
The magical realism elements were perfectly subtle and surely helped craft one bittersweet Cuban family saga.
themahtin's review
4.0
Need to re-read this one, but I remember that after I read it I looked for her name every time I went into a bookstore.