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sathya_iyer 's review for:
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
by Isabel Quintero
There is often an expectation that a story told must have something which we don't often get to experience. Something beyond our own mundane existence and daily grind.
However there is merit in observing the tribulations of people who can be any person picked from a sample of humans. More often than not, the better stories have truth in them without any need for adventures or unlikely events.
Gabi is a similar tale of a high school senior, struggling with her own insecurities of being fat, loving food, having friends who make mistakes or have different choices. Any person who went to school could pick out one such person, maybe even a friend who went through if not the same incidents.
There's no great redeemer, something that'll make Gabi a great champion, or make the people who thought down of her to suddenly stare in awe and get humiliated for their belittling assumptions. Such things don't happen in real life.
The only thing we get for ourselves is a small universe where we might make an impact on the ones we love and at the end of it all, have them stick with us for a dinner in some diner after graduation.
It was a good read, and some good poems and haikus didn't hurt either. I did have to translate some phrases because I don't know Spanish, but it wasn't that bad.
Best wishes to the author for more works!
However there is merit in observing the tribulations of people who can be any person picked from a sample of humans. More often than not, the better stories have truth in them without any need for adventures or unlikely events.
Gabi is a similar tale of a high school senior, struggling with her own insecurities of being fat, loving food, having friends who make mistakes or have different choices. Any person who went to school could pick out one such person, maybe even a friend who went through if not the same incidents.
There's no great redeemer, something that'll make Gabi a great champion, or make the people who thought down of her to suddenly stare in awe and get humiliated for their belittling assumptions. Such things don't happen in real life.
The only thing we get for ourselves is a small universe where we might make an impact on the ones we love and at the end of it all, have them stick with us for a dinner in some diner after graduation.
It was a good read, and some good poems and haikus didn't hurt either. I did have to translate some phrases because I don't know Spanish, but it wasn't that bad.
Best wishes to the author for more works!