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It was hard to read about the glories of having a summer home on a crustacean rich area of the coast while being shuttled to and from work on a train. But there is no other season for this book -- it's a beach read through and through. You are allowed to be languid with each character for their chapter, sipping wine with them or gluing dollhouse furniture or trying to compose an e-mail.
I came across a really great quote that pinned down exactly how I felt after reading.
“We have an idea of a “summer book”. To be read on a beach, or in a hammock, or amid long grass. It promises pleasure and total immersion: if every few minutes you find yourself laying it flat upon your chest and wondering about lunch then it is probably not a summer book.”
- Zadie Smith
There is a sense of total immersion in this story because you are hearing the same stories from so many perspectives in that language that family stories (and unknown family secrets) are told. I picked this book up because I saw a woman so totally engrossed it in on the train and hope that someone else will do the same.
I came across a really great quote that pinned down exactly how I felt after reading.
“We have an idea of a “summer book”. To be read on a beach, or in a hammock, or amid long grass. It promises pleasure and total immersion: if every few minutes you find yourself laying it flat upon your chest and wondering about lunch then it is probably not a summer book.”
- Zadie Smith
There is a sense of total immersion in this story because you are hearing the same stories from so many perspectives in that language that family stories (and unknown family secrets) are told. I picked this book up because I saw a woman so totally engrossed it in on the train and hope that someone else will do the same.