I would have never picked this book if it weren't for the book club (which again, people, is the beauty of the book club!). Anyway, it was a very good book in that the quest for finding Steve's aunt who was committed to a hospital was quite the journey. Also, learning of other family members and their stories kept the reader intrigued with interesting side plot lines, which eventually went together to reveal motivations, as well as cultures. However, I can honestly say that I felt that the book could have been cut by at least 1/4 if he wasn't so repetitive about how his mother kept the fact that she had a sister a secret. We got it, already. It was a weird thing. She was either embarrassed that her sister had a missing leg and was a little slower or that her sister was "taken care of" by first her mother and then by the institution. However, I did like the information about the aunt, sister, cousin, friend (I can't remember at this point), who got out of Germany by working for the Nazis by pretending she wasn't Jewish. Spoiler alert: there are no ghosts in the story.
3/5 stars
I would have never picked this book if it weren't for the book club (which again, people, is the beauty of the book club!). Anyway, it was a very good book in that the quest for finding Steve's aunt who was committed to a hospital was quite the journey. Also, learning of other family members and their stories kept the reader intrigued with interesting side plot lines, which eventually went together to reveal motivations, as well as cultures. However, I can honestly say that I felt that the book could have been cut by at least 1/4 if he wasn't so repetitive about how his mother kept the fact that she had a sister a secret. We got it, already. It was a weird thing. She was either embarrassed that her sister had a missing leg and was a little slower or that her sister was "taken care of" by first her mother and then by the institution. However, I did like the information about the aunt, sister, cousin, friend (I can't remember at this point), who got out of Germany by working for the Nazis by pretending she wasn't Jewish. Spoiler alert: there are no ghosts in the story.
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December 2023
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