Read this because Sara recommended it, and because Michael Ondaatje is an upcoming author on mpr's "Talking Volumes" - always a good show, always an in-depth conversation with the author. Kerri Miller rocks; she seems to be following in the footsteps of Terry Gross, researching her subject with passion and asking apt and interesting questions.
The novel was interesting; my first by Ondaatje. A spare, clean telling of a tale. The story of three young people (Anna, Claire and Coop) who are so close in childhood and then ripped apart by tragedy left me reeling. Actually it's been a little while since I read this, and my feelings have moderated. I found the prose to be beautiful but the material to be obtuse... the lives of these people were portrayed rather beautifully, but I found it hard to care very deeply about them.
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