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A review by ahsimlibrarian
A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez
5.0
I loved this book both times I read it. It's about a Chinese-German young woman who has an affair with a Russian immigrant with a seedy past. She evokes her parents and childhood so poetically. I think it's semi-autobiographical. Sadly, the library where I work doesn't own it anymore, otherwise I would be talking it up!
"One wants a way of looking back without anger or bitterness or shame. One wants to be able to tell everything without blaming or apologizing." (94)
"I want to get down something T. S. Eliot said: Human beings are capable of passions that human experience can never live up to." (118)
"Someone has said: To be a woman is always to be hiding something." (129)
"One wants a way of looking back without anger or bitterness or shame. One wants to be able to tell everything without blaming or apologizing." (94)
"I want to get down something T. S. Eliot said: Human beings are capable of passions that human experience can never live up to." (118)
"Someone has said: To be a woman is always to be hiding something." (129)