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In terms of interesting themes, this book was good. It dealt with interesting issues. I understood a lot of why some characters acted the way they did. However, the lack of clear dialogue and the somewhat consuming storytelling really took me out of the novel. I didn't enjoy having to try to figure out who was talking and when. I also really didn't like some of the characters. In part, because I didnt understand them but also I think they weren't necessarily supposed to be likable? Flaca, for ex...
This is an episodic story of a troubled Dominican family in Washington Heights. The focus is very much on the women’s experience, particularly their (often difficult) relationships with each other. Most of the novel takes place within the same apartment. Some of the writing was very good, but there didn’t seem to be much of a story. This was more like an onion structure than a plot: as the story goes on, more and more is revealed about the family and how they got to be where they are. There is a...
I understood Soledad. You don't have to relate to the characters in order to understand Soledad, her family and their stuggles. The writing doesn't flow consistently, but the author kept me intrigued.
It was ok. I enjoyed her other book, Dominicana so much more! I think i didnt like it as much bc the story was told in the viewpoint of several characters and it jumped back and forth between them all throughout making it a little confusing at times.
aaaaaaaand I definitely wept reading the final three sentences of this book.
Spencer gave me this book to read in March. I haven't really been able to get into it, even after 100 pages. It was assigned reading for a Literature class he is taking. It has an intriguing story line, about a girl born to Dominican parents who abandons the NYC north side to assimilate into the city. She goes home when her mother is ill, and is sucked back into the squabbles of the mother, the aunt, the grandmother, the cousin. I wonder why I' supposed to like it? I will finish it though since
What I find the most compelling part's of Angie Cruz's novel is not the prose or magical realist elements, but its extremely accurate caricature of NYC. The funniest and truest description of West Manhattan. I wouldn't describe it as magical realist so much as having a dream motif. The lyrical ending doesn't quite flow with the rest of the novel, but it doesn't spring up from nowhere.A novel equally about sexuality as it is about hybridity, it's not the average second generation story. Soledad i...
Edit: I have re-read and taught this book many times in the nine years since I wrote the review below and upon reflection I think I am wrong about this book and it is better than I gave it credit for. . . Maybe one day I will re-write this review, but for now I think it can be safely ignored and I pumped it up by one star.My biggest beef with this book is not so much the book itself, but the pull-quotes and excerpts from reviews - all of which seem to hone in on the "magical realist" aspects of
This book is so incredibly beautiful, I’ve read a lot of books this year about mother and daughter relationships but this one was absolutely perfect… I wanted it to continue longer
