This is a beautifully written book. And yet.
Some of it's too stylistic for my taste.
It's interesting. But. Sometimes "style" comes across more
like "gimmick."
I LOVED Leo's character. His loneliness is palpable,
heartbreaking, his views on things unique.
But. The "And yet" and
"But" sentences drove me crazy.
Had there been fewer, I think it would have been a nice way to
distinguish his voice, to show his sort of tentative hope and struggle to hang
on. And yet. Too much of anything just diminishes the
power of the device.
I also loved Alma and her world and her weird little
obsessions.
I didn't read the book fast enough, so I got a little confused
sometimes on what was truth and how people were really connected, but I think
that's part of the point of the novel, so I didn't mind it.
I would have preferred the ending to go on a little longer. But.
It was still satisfying in a bittersweet sort of way.
As I said, most of the writing was beautiful, with some
fantastic passages. I cared about the
characters and didn't want it to end.
I would definitely read more by Nicole Krauss.
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