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A review by gabesteller
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
4.0
another edition of #MOMRECS ! For like 5 years my mom has been saying "this is one of my favorite books its really short and it won the Booker Pls pls read it already" and so i finally have. and it is in fact good stuff!
Its all about a community of people who live on houseboats of varying levels of decrepitude and their PERSONAL PROBLEMS of which their are MANY. I read that Penelope Fitzgerald is very careful about the way the title is translated but because she wats it to convey the liminal space the characters occupy which i think is really smart, cuz they are all caught between different worlds and choices that they're trying to dodge or avoid. Just a wonderful little melancholy book, about adults being happy and sad at the same time, that also featured some of the best written kids I've encountered.
Dug it! thanks mom!
Its all about a community of people who live on houseboats of varying levels of decrepitude and their PERSONAL PROBLEMS of which their are MANY. I read that Penelope Fitzgerald is very careful about the way the title is translated but because she wats it to convey the liminal space the characters occupy which i think is really smart, cuz they are all caught between different worlds and choices that they're trying to dodge or avoid. Just a wonderful little melancholy book, about adults being happy and sad at the same time, that also featured some of the best written kids I've encountered.
Dug it! thanks mom!