The Vegetarian is full of powerful and graphic imagery but nothing gory, nothing overly disturbing as alluded to in the many rave reviews of this book. I wondered if something was lost in translation.The words that come to mind when I think of this book, post-read, are minimalist and sparse. Yet the imagery is vivid, …
I have so many thoughts about this book, it’s hard to know where to begin. First, I have to confess that though I knew of Salman Rushdie, thanks to his notoriety, this is the first book of his I’ve actually read. And now, I’m wondering what I’ve been missing all this years. I was only …
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Since Alice was born, we have lived in three different communities, each one distinctly different from the rest. She was born in New York City, and we lived in Riverdale, a heavily Jewish but still diverse section of the Bronx, along the Hudson River. When I first moved to Riverdale, I was dating my future …
I really took my time with this book. The story is so rich, with so many layers and I found myself re-reading sections of the book as the characters began to come together in a sad and surprising vortex towards the end of the book. The author begins the story with several separate strands and …