“I really enjoyed the imagery of the trees and how, like the sisters, they slowly died. Throughout the book the narrator tells of the attempts by his friends and the rest of the town to understand the suicide of the Lisbon girls but can't really find an answer.
I read this after Middlesex, so it's interesting to compare the two; they're similar in that they're both narrated, but the narrator here is much more removed than in Middlesex. Also, in the last quarter of the book there are a couple of pages about a Greek grandmother that's almost a sneak peek into Middlesex.
It's also an interesting story that's well told.
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posted Sunday, January 20 2008