My mother really questions the choices of my book club. Last time around, it was Emma Donoghue's "Room". Room is where five year old Jack was born and where he lives with his Ma, held captive within the four walls since she was kidnapped seven years earlier. (Great book, but I didn't like the end. Can't tell you why without spoiling it.)
This time, we're reading Annabel by Kathleen Winter. The first line of the publisher's description: "In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once." (Not my mom's type of reading material.)
I'm not quite finished, but so far the book is beautiful and moving, though definitely not a light read.
"She was not a person who froze someone's character in her mind, calling this one egotistical and that one not nearly confident enough and another one truthful or untruthful. To Thomasina people were rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It was not fair, she felt, to treat people as if they were finished beings. Everyone was always becoming and unbecoming."
What a timely message of rebirth, renewal and redemption.
Happy Easter, everyone.
1 comments:
I also loved Donoghue's "Room" but was not happy with the last 50 pages. The quote you listed really makes you think about how you view people - Awesome and introspective! Going to have to add that book to my must read list!
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