Review: Excellent job, Leslie A. Gordon!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2012
This book is amazingly well written, with a great plot, well drawn characters, and gorgeous prose.Each chapter follows one of the members of the Dahl family, which is still trying to recover from a tragedy that happened two years before. First person POV for the women, third for the man.Each one of them - Ethan, the father, Jenny, the mother, and Ella, the teenager daughter - is trying desperately to find a way to cope with the grief. Unfortunately, they are all trying it alone, and the family is, like Ethan states in a chapter, looking more like a bunch of roommates than people united by love and blood.A tragedy like the one they faced is known to destroy families, and the mother is so consumed by grief and guilt she fails miserably to see what's happening with little Ella. It's heartbreaking to read about this young girl ordeal, what she finds to be an answer to her problems. The father is both weak and strong. You'll love and despise them; you'll cheer by their happiness; you'll read fast to finish it and then you'll feel a little orphan, missing them.Having the twisted mind I have, I have to confess I knew what she was going to do but I don't think many 'normal' people (:)) would guess. It's a compelling and inspiring story and also a good mystery.There's a beautiful Brazilian song that says, in Portuguese, something like: "Certain songs I listen to/fit so well inside of me/ that I have got to ask/ How I'm not the one who wrote it*". Well,  this is one book that I'd love to have written. :D Excellent job, Leslie A. Gordon!*Milton Nascimento - Certas Canes