My latest read was a quick 150-pager. Synopsis: "Marissa, pregnant with her first child, becomes obsessed with tracking down the antique cradle her mother took when she abandoned the family a decade earlier. Marissa's husband, Matt, is sure he's been dispatched on a fool's errand, but his journey soon connects him to Marissa's family and his own history of abandonment, neglect and abuse amid a string of foster homes and orphanages. Matt's quest through four states is interwoven with another drama that takes place 11 years later, in 2008, in which poet and children's author Renee Owen is haunted by memories of war and a lost love as she prepares to send her son off to fight in Iraq."
This book was, as I've said, a quick and easy read with a lot of poignant symbolism and family dilemma. The reason I gave it a 3.5 was because, truly this is a forgettable novel. While reading it, I certainly enjoyed it and it had many lovely scenes and quotable lines but to tell the truth - a year from now when I'm fingering books on my shelves to figure out what to read next, I'll wonder if I've read this book or not...I'll open to the first page and I'll read the first few lines and it will only be then that I recall I had already read it. Every book hits readers a different way, however, so you may feel differently and I wouldn't be surprised. It got rave reviews!
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