A review by myrtosfullybooked
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg

3.0

Loved the beginning of the book, but somewhere in the middle it lost me and felt increasingly slow and tiresome. I thought the plot summary was actually not that accurate, in the sense that Ginzburg doesn't so much focus on her own family and their mannerisms and traditions, but extrapolates to the lives of an extended circle of friends and prominent figures of her time, which personally I was not as interested in. Finally, the book has often been praised for focusing solely on the personal and simply stating with a cool and objective gaze the political occurrences happening parallel to the characters' lives. Personally, I didn't like this approach as much as I thought I would...