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A review by mjcourchesne
The Almond Picker by Simonetta Agnello Hornby
4.0
This book was recommended to me by a colleague. It was a bit difficult to find, as it was originally published in Italian, and brought to the US market for a brief time.
However, once it fell into my hands, I had a difficult time putting it down. It's not a quick read exactly (336 pages), but the characters are intriguing and the chapters are relatively short, so it was easy to tear through a bunch of pages at one sitting.
I really appreciated the author's device of crafting each chapter as if it were a scene in a play. Chapter headings such as "Dr. Mendico tends to a dying patient" are quirky and unexpected, drawing the reader in to answer the questions that automatically arise: "Why is the patient dying?" "Who is the patient?"
However, once it fell into my hands, I had a difficult time putting it down. It's not a quick read exactly (336 pages), but the characters are intriguing and the chapters are relatively short, so it was easy to tear through a bunch of pages at one sitting.
I really appreciated the author's device of crafting each chapter as if it were a scene in a play. Chapter headings such as "Dr. Mendico tends to a dying patient" are quirky and unexpected, drawing the reader in to answer the questions that automatically arise: "Why is the patient dying?" "Who is the patient?"