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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
I really like Zevin's books but this one was just odd. I started reading it thinking ok this is original but then it just didn't even out enough to make total sense to me. I recommend it to those interested in randomness but for those not I wouldn't read it.
I felt like this took to long to say what it did. I loved the idea and the way it was portrayed, but it felt dragged-out and I'm of the opinion this would have been much more powerful as a short story.
This is one of those huge surprises. I bought this book at a Poundland store in the UK three years ago. I got this book for A pound. Probably best invested pound ever.
Margarettown explores the topic of the many women each woman really is, the women she has been, the women she is going to become and the woman she currently is. With a love story as the background, Zevin describes the life story of a woman that could be any woman, and that has as many names as variations the name of Margaret allows. A woman that is because of what she has experienced, and that will be because of what she didn't do, or what she actually did and then regretted doing.
Margarettown explores the topic of the many women each woman really is, the women she has been, the women she is going to become and the woman she currently is. With a love story as the background, Zevin describes the life story of a woman that could be any woman, and that has as many names as variations the name of Margaret allows. A woman that is because of what she has experienced, and that will be because of what she didn't do, or what she actually did and then regretted doing.
Extremely divided on this book. There were moments-- lots of moments, especially in the first half-- where I loathed the narration, and the fanciful liberties seemed "more confusing than cool". But then there were lines that resonated beautifully-- "Sometimes, we say what is not quite true with the hope that it will become true"-- how "[it's] all decided in two or three moments"-- "love is usually finite, but still worthwhile for as long as it lasts"-- and admittedly I teared up on the final page.
There is something heartbreaking and lovely about having the option to choose how someone is remembered, of having a way to reconcile a discrepancy between what the heart remembers and what the eyes remember.
This book is more or less a poor man's mashup of Life of Pi and Big Fish.
There is something heartbreaking and lovely about having the option to choose how someone is remembered, of having a way to reconcile a discrepancy between what the heart remembers and what the eyes remember.
This book is more or less a poor man's mashup of Life of Pi and Big Fish.