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bakrafty1 's review for:
House on Endless Waters
by Emuna Elon
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wow!
I was gifted this book because I told someone that Amsterdam is a city my soul feels at home in for some unexplained reason. Yoel Blum made a promise never to return to the city that bore him and yet, after her death, when he reluctantly agrees to his publisher to travel there, he comes across a film loop in a museum that is clearly his sister and his mother holding a baby he doesn’t recognize. Thus opens his story of finding out who he is and his own place in the world while writing a book that tells history through how he imagines his mother’s experience of it was.
Masterfully woven. Plus, as a lover of the city, it was amazing to walk streets and view artwork in Amsterdam’s museums with Yoel that are so familiar to my own soul.
As a hopeful writer, it was also cool to witness his process and read how his experiences of city life became part of his writing.
One oddity, is this is the second book I’ve read recently that does not use any quotation marks to see off conversations.
I was gifted this book because I told someone that Amsterdam is a city my soul feels at home in for some unexplained reason. Yoel Blum made a promise never to return to the city that bore him and yet, after her death, when he reluctantly agrees to his publisher to travel there, he comes across a film loop in a museum that is clearly his sister and his mother holding a baby he doesn’t recognize. Thus opens his story of finding out who he is and his own place in the world while writing a book that tells history through how he imagines his mother’s experience of it was.
Masterfully woven. Plus, as a lover of the city, it was amazing to walk streets and view artwork in Amsterdam’s museums with Yoel that are so familiar to my own soul.
As a hopeful writer, it was also cool to witness his process and read how his experiences of city life became part of his writing.
One oddity, is this is the second book I’ve read recently that does not use any quotation marks to see off conversations.