so-soThe premise: The Soviets used twins to hide their space program failures. One flies and dies, the other becomes a hero. This reflective novel of survivor‘s guilt, identity, sibling bonds and tragic absurdities has a lot of interesting things going on but never quite ‘gels.‘ The best parts involve the protagonist‘s scary childhood in a Ukrainian village and later surreal happenings in Mission Control. A strong effort but only partial catharsis.
As my birthday nears closer, the book pile begins. All but one were impulse buys based on the description of the book. I also judge books by their covers and so one was purely because of its cover and then the story sounded ok. Guess which one was the cover pick! Motherless Brooklyn came on a recommendation from a friend.
Is it just me or is that eye creepy?
This was picked solely because I liked the cover. I liked the concept though. Soviet Russia doesn't have the technology to send cosmonauts into space and bring them home again but beating America in the space race is priority #1, so sets of identical twins are groomed. One to be launched into space and left to die, the other to stay on Earth to be a national hero.Two siblings, one face, one name. One big lie.
Picked this one up from the library. (Thank the Lord for libraries!). All about the Space Race and the USSR‘s quest to beat out the USA...at any cost.
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