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A review by richardbakare
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
4.0
In “Dear Edward,” Ann Napolitano sets her story in a different environment than the Italian/Irish family melodrama and into something more painfully different. While still honoring her own style and recurring themes. Family ties, secrets, complex characters, deep story arcs, love and loss are all here like in her other works. The setup with the plane crash, time period, and the personal drama of the cast of characters is what makes this book more accessible to a wider audience.
Rising out of the wreckage literally and metaphorically, we follow Edward’s growth back to being a whole while finding love and his sense of identity. The literal wreckage and the back and forth perspective style that Napolitano uses is very jarring. Trigger warning now if those type of events impact you personally. If you get past the pain of that tragedy, Napolitano gives you a love story grounded in a tactile realism. You know and have experienced every emotion and scenario in some flavor or another.
Each of Napolitano’s books I’ve read to date really stay with me. The moral, psychology, and emotional exposition & excavation is rewarding and challenging. They put you out of your comfort zone and ask you to think about how you would respond in very realistic scenarios. At the same time she weaves in a type of spirituality and mysticism that gives life mystery and excitement. They remind me of watching the world wake up as the sun rises and we transition from calm stillness to roaring chaos. Just to settle it all back down again in the end.
Rising out of the wreckage literally and metaphorically, we follow Edward’s growth back to being a whole while finding love and his sense of identity. The literal wreckage and the back and forth perspective style that Napolitano uses is very jarring. Trigger warning now if those type of events impact you personally. If you get past the pain of that tragedy, Napolitano gives you a love story grounded in a tactile realism. You know and have experienced every emotion and scenario in some flavor or another.
Each of Napolitano’s books I’ve read to date really stay with me. The moral, psychology, and emotional exposition & excavation is rewarding and challenging. They put you out of your comfort zone and ask you to think about how you would respond in very realistic scenarios. At the same time she weaves in a type of spirituality and mysticism that gives life mystery and excitement. They remind me of watching the world wake up as the sun rises and we transition from calm stillness to roaring chaos. Just to settle it all back down again in the end.