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High Spirits
by Camille Gomera-Tavarez
Thank you to Netgally and the publisher for providing me an e-arc of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review
I loved this book!
High Spirits is a work of semi-autobiographical short fiction in which all eleven stories tie together by focusing on the same family, the Belens, and their family members both in America and in the Dominican Republic. This is Camille Gomera-Tavarez's first book and a real winner. I hope she continues to write because she has a great style. I really felt like I knew the Belen family by the end of the book and could cheer and cry for its members.
The topics of the stories vary greatly and include things like gender roles, religion, family dynamics, poverty, immigration, machismo, lgbt+ topics, and magical realism.
I listened to the audiobook of this work and thought the narrator was great and the format really added to the stories.
I loved this book!
High Spirits is a work of semi-autobiographical short fiction in which all eleven stories tie together by focusing on the same family, the Belens, and their family members both in America and in the Dominican Republic. This is Camille Gomera-Tavarez's first book and a real winner. I hope she continues to write because she has a great style. I really felt like I knew the Belen family by the end of the book and could cheer and cry for its members.
The topics of the stories vary greatly and include things like gender roles, religion, family dynamics, poverty, immigration, machismo, lgbt+ topics, and magical realism.
I listened to the audiobook of this work and thought the narrator was great and the format really added to the stories.