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Divisadero
by Michael Ondaatje
I have a thing for Michael Ondaatje...and I say it every time I read a book of his....but don't know why. It seems I fell in love with him after the English Patient....and I keep returning for his way of creating sentences with English words. I haven't always loved the stories...but his prose are lovely.
This is the story of two girls--- who were brought up in CA on a farm...one an orphan, the other motherless....and they had an orphan boy in their house--- all cared for by a father. The man couldn't handle his girls growing up and chased one off when he found she had started an affair with the boy...two runaways, one ran south and buried herself in her studies and became a French lit researcher, the other ran east to become a gambler. Snapshots of a mansion in France where the girl, now an adult hides and writes, befriends a man--- becomes his lover, he the son of a gypsy woman and her lover--- both who escaped gypsy life and one ended in jail. The gambler ends up in trouble and scammed by a woman he thinks he cares for-- is beaten and is nursed back to health by the sister....a lot of happenings all connecting by a small thread....like a dream where the person is tossing and turning...there is a theme and characters are related, but you can't always figure out the story.
Read if you enjoy Ondaatje. I would not say this is my favorite, but I enjoyed it.
2021 PopSugar Reading Challenge: A book with a black-and-white cover
This is the story of two girls--- who were brought up in CA on a farm...one an orphan, the other motherless....and they had an orphan boy in their house--- all cared for by a father. The man couldn't handle his girls growing up and chased one off when he found she had started an affair with the boy...two runaways, one ran south and buried herself in her studies and became a French lit researcher, the other ran east to become a gambler. Snapshots of a mansion in France where the girl, now an adult hides and writes, befriends a man--- becomes his lover, he the son of a gypsy woman and her lover--- both who escaped gypsy life and one ended in jail. The gambler ends up in trouble and scammed by a woman he thinks he cares for-- is beaten and is nursed back to health by the sister....a lot of happenings all connecting by a small thread....like a dream where the person is tossing and turning...there is a theme and characters are related, but you can't always figure out the story.
Read if you enjoy Ondaatje. I would not say this is my favorite, but I enjoyed it.
2021 PopSugar Reading Challenge: A book with a black-and-white cover