fallchicken 's review for:

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

4.0

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This is almost like a group of related short stories, and felt a bit skimpy for that reason. The change in voice bothered me, bouncing between first and third person, sometimes with the same character. Maybe if I were cleverer I could figure out the wherefore on this, but it seemed needlessly confusing. I liked the telling of the separate stories, bouncing back and forth in time and place, with all the strings coming together in the end. Well, almost all. Claire and Coop head back to the ranch, so to speak, to confront the past, of which Coop has no memory. Since he's lost his past, literally and figuratively, it would be curious to know what happened there.