so, i loved this book! julia glass won a national book award for this novel, made even more special i would imagine, as it was her debut novel. it tells the story of a family, viewed at different times by different narrators through generations. it starts with the father telling his story, his life before and after marriage, before and after kids, his oldest son takes over in the middle of the book and the final part is written by a young woman who ultimately has a connection with both. this book jumps from a current time frame to the past, but i personally love a book that does that...keeps it interesting...giving you small morsels of information, enough to peak your curiosity but maybe not enough to understand fully the significance...makes you want to delve deeper, learn who these people are, why they've made the decisions that they have...this book also brought me to tears at one point and i think that that's a mark of an amazing writer, one who brings you to tears, who sucks you into the story to the point that you've forgotten everything around you and all you know is what's happening on the page...actually it's more like i'm in the room with mal and fenno and i'm listening to what they are saying more than reading...i will say it did have a slightly lackluster ending, it wasn't so much of an "i don't really want this to end" so much as a "really, that's it? it's over?" kind of an end...but i won't hold that against her...this is the second of glass's books that i've read, the first being the whole world over...it's been a few years, but i remember liking that one as well, and after looking at some of the reviews on amazon, i was reminded that one of the characters of three junes, fenno, is also in the whole world over....perhaps i'll have to give that one another read one of these days...
so, i loved this book! julia glass won a national book award for this novel, made even more special i would imagine, as it was her debut novel. it tells the story of a family, viewed at different times by different narrators through generations. it starts with the father telling his story, his life before and after marriage, before and after kids, his oldest son takes over in the middle of the book and the final part is written by a young woman who ultimately has a connection with both. this book jumps from a current time frame to the past, but i personally love a book that does that...keeps it interesting...giving you small morsels of information, enough to peak your curiosity but maybe not enough to understand fully the significance...makes you want to delve deeper, learn who these people are, why they've made the decisions that they have...this book also brought me to tears at one point and i think that that's a mark of an amazing writer, one who brings you to tears, who sucks you into the story to the point that you've forgotten everything around you and all you know is what's happening on the page...actually it's more like i'm in the room with mal and fenno and i'm listening to what they are saying more than reading...i will say it did have a slightly lackluster ending, it wasn't so much of an "i don't really want this to end" so much as a "really, that's it? it's over?" kind of an end...but i won't hold that against her...this is the second of glass's books that i've read, the first being the whole world over...it's been a few years, but i remember liking that one as well, and after looking at some of the reviews on amazon, i was reminded that one of the characters of three junes, fenno, is also in the whole world over....perhaps i'll have to give that one another read one of these days...
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