The House on the Lagoon

Had to buy this U.S. #KindleDailyDeal ( https://www.amazon.com/House-Lagoon-Novel-Rosario-Ferré-ebook/dp/B00JK5590M/r... ) and National Book Award Finalist by Puerto Rican author Rosario Ferré. ??

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The House on the Lagoon | Rosario Ferré

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Isabel is writing a memoir of her and her husband‘s families in San Juan and Ponce in Puerto Rico. The book is dense with family anecdotes, all interesting or moving. It jumps around and at times I struggled to remember who fitted where! What makes it fascinating is that Isabel‘s husband Quintin is secretly reading the memoir and disagreeing with Isabel‘s take on everything. As we get closer to their own story this becomes unputdownable ðŸŒŸðŸŒŸðŸŒŸðŸŒŸ

Centique Great insights into the role of women and how their freedom can be/was oppressed as wives and mothers, also some history of Puerto Rico which was new to me. 6y

merelybookish So it's a novel about the writing of a memoir? 6y

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DebinHawaii It sounds really good. Stacking! ðŸ“šðŸ‘ 6y

Centique @merelybookish most chapters are the actual memoir, the odd italicised chapter breaks in from Quintin‘s POV with his thoughts in current times on how Isabel‘s writing is going. Eventually the memoir catches up and you get Isabel‘s perspective on Quintin. (Hope that makes sense!) 6y

Centique @merelybookish and oh yes, the whole thing is a novel. 6y

Reggie You totally sold me on this. 6y

Centique @Reggie oh good! I‘m so glad ðŸ˜ŠðŸ‘ 6y

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