A review by hilaryreadsbooks
The President and the Frog by Caro De Robertis

4.0

In Caro De Robertis’ THE PRESIDENT AND THE FROG, untold stories dance against sealed lips, memories overflow—all gorgeously rendered in stunning prose that has everything I have come to expect from a De Robertis novel. 

We begin with an interview at the home of the ex-president of an unnamed Latin American country, which he receives in the manner that he has received all interviews: honest but careful of the secrets that he has kept up to this point. A former guerilla who rose up with the revolution against dictatorship in his country, and then jailed for years and years before becoming president, he is well-known and respected, remembered for being driven by his love for nation, as well as for his many flaws. As the interview continues, he reflects on the state of the world, on movements, activism, democracy, and the future, but one secret continues to voice its desire to be released, a particular secret involving a feisty talking frog.