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A review by mfumarolo
French Rhapsody by Antoine Laurain
4.0
Really more of a 3.5 if I’m honest, but since Goodreads STILL doesn’t allow for half-stars, I’ll round up.
Laurain May be my favorite new-to-me author of 2018. This is the second book of his I’ve read, and while it had less whimsy than the romantic The Red Notebook, this novel similarly explores a lot of feelings and delivers a thoughtful and well-crafted story in a relatively short number of pages. I really liked the structure of this book and how it occasionally abandoned the main plot line to allow a secondary character to speak for a chapter. A great example of the power nostalgia can have over us (or contrarily, the fight some of us put up against it), and the intersections our lives make with each other.
Laurain May be my favorite new-to-me author of 2018. This is the second book of his I’ve read, and while it had less whimsy than the romantic The Red Notebook, this novel similarly explores a lot of feelings and delivers a thoughtful and well-crafted story in a relatively short number of pages. I really liked the structure of this book and how it occasionally abandoned the main plot line to allow a secondary character to speak for a chapter. A great example of the power nostalgia can have over us (or contrarily, the fight some of us put up against it), and the intersections our lives make with each other.