A review by mrs_bonaventure
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

5.0

Picked up second hand a year or so ago, and dug out from the bottom of the pile after reading an excerpt on Pinterest that began, "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
I then fell into the thoughts of a grumpy old man holed up in a cluttered apartment in New York and an awkward teenage girl with a reclusive mother and a disturbed brother.....
But... They were so real (except when they weren't). Post modern, self-referential, nodding to Borges and Marquez and yet full of old fashioned romance.. I was hooked.
I read the last pages walking down the pavement because I couldn't put it down. And it was worth it. I feel slightly stunned.