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A review by jessica_gilkison
Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi
5.0
"Stones from the River" is possibly my favorite book, yet I've only read it once (years ago) and have managed to never read anything else by Hegi since. Thankfully I've rectified the latter with "Floating in My Mother's Palm." Now I need to read "Stones" again, followed by everything else she has written.
Something about Hegi's writing style--her word choice, the way she constructs a sentence, her disjointed but compelling character development--just pulls me in and mesmerizes me. I don't read much fiction and I'm quite particular when I do, yet I find myself rereading certain sentences and paragraphs from this book because there's such depth available. The particulars of these characters are quite foreign to me (1950s, Germany, etc.), yet there is an intense familiarity in some of their emotions and struggles.
Something about Hegi's writing style--her word choice, the way she constructs a sentence, her disjointed but compelling character development--just pulls me in and mesmerizes me. I don't read much fiction and I'm quite particular when I do, yet I find myself rereading certain sentences and paragraphs from this book because there's such depth available. The particulars of these characters are quite foreign to me (1950s, Germany, etc.), yet there is an intense familiarity in some of their emotions and struggles.