The Book of Emma Reyes by Emma Reyes

The Book of Emma Reyes

Emma Reyes with Daniel Alarcón (Translator)

192 pages first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction art biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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The Book of Emma Reyes will captivate readers who crave the rare immediacy of letters written across thirty years that transform a windowless Bogotá room, an orphanage’s grueling chores, and eventual encounters with Frida Kahlo into an artist’s luminous, painterly testament to ingenuity.

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A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela's Ashes, of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was haile...

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4.07
based on 355 reviews

Moods

emotional: 75%

reflective: 62%

sad: 59%

dark: 40%

challenging: 27%

inspiring: 21%

tense: 21%

funny: 18%

adventurous: 16%

hopeful: 13%

informative: 13%

lighthearted: 8%

mysterious: 5%

relaxing: 2%


Pace

36% of readers chose fast
41% of readers chose medium
22% of readers chose slow
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