Rafael Vasconcelos Vasconcelos থেকে 64010 Fucignano TE, Italy
This is a novel which is actually a series of linked stories about life in an itinerant Japanese family. The narrator, the oldest girl, Olivia, has a detached narrative voice. The descriptions of her work at the chicken hatchery, the area of Arkansas in which she lives and her relationship with her grandmother are evocative and sometimes frightening. It's a really interesting, but not compelling in the way most novels are. For example, there's something so much life an essay-quality to these chapters. I was never sure when a chapter was ending. I literally couldn't tell by the tone or the ending of a particular narrative. Strange, but really well written. I'm left waiting to see how feel about this. Will it continue to haunt me? Will it be memorable simply because it is so different in tone? It's about a world I don't know. And perhaps, having this window on it, I'll eventually realize how compelling it actually was for me. It's labled YA...definitely not, as far as I'm concerned.