Book: Partita
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Pages: 352
This is my 275th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist. His request, not, to see her again stirs up ghost she's kept at bay for a lifetime. Shifting between past and present, Livia's decision to meet or reject the reunion means confronting step by step, in memories framed as musical dances, the experiences of childhood loss, abandonment, self-immolating passion, and perilous attachment to a man who broke her belief in love and ruptured the course of her life.
This was a pretty good book. I am a big fan on Barbara Kingsolver, so I am always willing to try her books when they come out. The writing is brilliant, and while it an epic scale novel, it still packed a lot into the short pages. The only thing that knocked it a bit for me was the ending - bit of a meh ending.
Stars: 4
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