Since this book doesn’t come out until October in the US, I was very excited to stumble upon it in Belgium. It’s not that long of a read (it didn’t even last me the entire plane ride from Brussels to Philadelphia), but it was a really rich, satisfying read that has stayed with me since.<\/p>\n
One of my favorite reading “things” is when unrelated books you read in short periods turn out to be thematically linked; they become a matched set to me \/ a good “pair.” As with “The Buffalo Soldier” which I read a week earlier<\/A>, this is a story of racially-mixed adoption (white parents\/black child(ren).<\/p>\n What truly makes a family? What makes a mother? How important are the physical links? Do the emotional ones replace them? Can your hopes and dreams for other people ever STOP hindering them \/ stop hindering your relationship with them when they don’t work out?<\/p>\n This was just really lovely. I think I’ve now read all Patchett’s books. I’m on the bandwagon. Leading the parade. They’re all really different than each other; they’ve all got at least one breathtaking, beautiful moment. This book had several. Run, Kenya, run…<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since this book doesn’t come out until October in the US, I was very excited to stumble upon it in Belgium. It’s not that long of a read (it didn’t even last me the entire plane ride from Brussels to … Continue reading