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An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
by Stephanie LaCava
Stephanie Lacava describes herself as being different. Different from everyone in her family, in her school, everyone in Paris. She obsesses about objects and trinkets, uses them as talismans and collects precious items that helps her cope with the world around her.
Stephanie is a preadolescent when, thanks to her father's secretive and oftentimes mysterious profession, gets uprooted from her friends and her childhood home in America and travel across the Atlantic to reside in a Parisian suburb.
Lacava's memoir of her coming of age as the odd-one-out, the special and the different leaves me confused.
I wish I could say that I loved it.
The fact that I won it in a Harper-Collins giveaway is only a part of it. I am usually a big fan of the books they publish and it's often an indicator of excellent reading ahead.
The cover, the binding, and the illustrations throughout the book, by Matthew Nelson, are gorgeous.
The footnotes about the extraordinary objects that so fascinated Lacava fail to capture me as much as I hoped they would. I love footnotes but the facts did not always feel relevant. As if the object selected for presentation was not there to enlighten me in Lacava's thinking, more a distraction from the turn of events.
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects is an easily read book. The language is straightforward and despite the dark undertones of depression and anxious obsession, probably more enlightening and rewarding for a teenage reader or someone more like Lacava.
If you want to read this book, make sure to read a physical copy to really enjoy the footnotes and illustrations fully.
Stephanie is a preadolescent when, thanks to her father's secretive and oftentimes mysterious profession, gets uprooted from her friends and her childhood home in America and travel across the Atlantic to reside in a Parisian suburb.
Lacava's memoir of her coming of age as the odd-one-out, the special and the different leaves me confused.
I wish I could say that I loved it.
The fact that I won it in a Harper-Collins giveaway is only a part of it. I am usually a big fan of the books they publish and it's often an indicator of excellent reading ahead.
The cover, the binding, and the illustrations throughout the book, by Matthew Nelson, are gorgeous.
The footnotes about the extraordinary objects that so fascinated Lacava fail to capture me as much as I hoped they would. I love footnotes but the facts did not always feel relevant. As if the object selected for presentation was not there to enlighten me in Lacava's thinking, more a distraction from the turn of events.
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects is an easily read book. The language is straightforward and despite the dark undertones of depression and anxious obsession, probably more enlightening and rewarding for a teenage reader or someone more like Lacava.
If you want to read this book, make sure to read a physical copy to really enjoy the footnotes and illustrations fully.