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marthagal 's review for:
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
This book is a story of two families, down on their luck, living together in an enormous, sort-of-haunted house in Perth in Western Australia. The families are completely different - in one, the father is a gambler whose always losing the family's money, in the other, the mother is the kind of salt-of-the-earth hard worker who can manage to feed her family on very little.
I really liked this book. I loved the characters and the story, the chronicle of family life and trying to make do they best they can.
The only negative for me was that I don't think I'm smart enough to get this book. Magical realism is not my thing. I didn't understand what was going on with the house, at all. I also didn't understand who the "I" was, presumably the narrator, though I have a guess.
Anyway, it was over my head, but I enjoyed it anyway.
I really liked this book. I loved the characters and the story, the chronicle of family life and trying to make do they best they can.
The only negative for me was that I don't think I'm smart enough to get this book. Magical realism is not my thing. I didn't understand what was going on with the house, at all. I also didn't understand who the "I" was, presumably the narrator, though I have a guess.
Anyway, it was over my head, but I enjoyed it anyway.