From the Bookshelf of Our Shared Shelf…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
This book is more enjoyable if you look at it as a series of short stories rather than expecting it to be a cohesive novel.
The writing is good, beautiful in places, but also has a tendency like a lot of "literary" writing to get a little bit tangled and convoluted. Overall, it's a book that feels too ambitious, like it's just trying to do too much in too few pages -- an experimental backwards storytelling style, switching perspectives between the four Garcia sisters (who are hard to keep straig ...more
The writing is good, beautiful in places, but also has a tendency like a lot of "literary" writing to get a little bit tangled and convoluted. Overall, it's a book that feels too ambitious, like it's just trying to do too much in too few pages -- an experimental backwards storytelling style, switching perspectives between the four Garcia sisters (who are hard to keep straig ...more
Beautifully written, but I felt like it only skimmed the surface of the characters, so there was so much more I wanted to know. But Alvarez has an amazing grasp of language, and paints vivid pictures with her words!
Time frame: 1956-1989, immigrant family story told in three chapters, reverse chronological order.
Sep 19, 2008
Terri
marked it as to-read
Feb 01, 2010
Kimberly
added it
Aug 28, 2013
Kathy
marked it as to-read
Mar 28, 2014
Clarke
marked it as to-read
Apr 14, 2014
Kandace
marked it as to-read
Dec 14, 2014
Sara
marked it as to-read
Nov 06, 2016
Leslie
added it
Aug 20, 2017
MJ
marked it as to-read
Jan 09, 2018
Gloriana
marked it as to-read
