jessyz 's review for:

The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

4.0

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I must confess I struggled with this book in the beginning. The details were overbearing at times and I just wanted the story to move along a little bit faster. I was angry at the protagonist Kemal and Fusun. I felt that this man was insisting on being miserable. On making choices that just didn't make sense. I still don't understand why. But perhaps the conclusion of the book gave me closure without a syrupy happy ending. If the only thing I took away from this book that standing in someone else's shoes takes humility and empathy that is enough to make the book worth being read.