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Indlæser... The Paper Palaceaf Miranda Cowley Heller
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Wow, there is a lot to unpack here. The Paper Palace is one of those Jodi Picoult-style (think very detailed) books where you can see, taste, and feel every. single. thing. Miranda Cowley Heller writes a beautiful book about Elle and her family. We follow Elle throughout her life as she hops from one time to another in a mostly seamless way (but occasionally, in the beginning, I couldn't keep straight if we were in today's Elle life or her younger Elle life). The Paper Palace is the main cabin, with a few outlying cabins that have been in Elle's family for generations. The Paper Palace holds all of Elle's fondest and worst memories. It's where Elle and her big sister Anna argued and would come back together; it's where Elle met Jonnas, her lifelong love, it's where Elle takes her husband Peter and their children every year to join her mother for vacation; it's where Elle lost her innocence. There is so much to love about this book; the writing is superb, it just flows, and you know Elle, Jonnas, Peter, Elle's mother, and all the other characters intimately. (I love Elle's mother - she's truly a bitch, but one of those that is also so endearing you just can't hate her, most the time.) Rich with family dynamics, I thoroughly enjoyed navigating life with Elle in The Paper Palace. This book was all over the place. It was happy, it was sad, it was traumatizing, and it didn't even have a solid conclusion. The timeline kept skipping all over the place in a way that was hard to follow, I couldn't keep the years straight and I'm not sure if including Wallace's abuse as a child was necessary to Elle's story. Overall I found it overly complicated and depressing. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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"A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Set against the summer backwoods and beaches of Cape Cod, The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother Elle Bishop to the precipice of a life-changing decision. With its transporting setting and propulsive pace, the story draws on the sweet promise of young love, as well as the heartbreaking damage incurred by too many secrets. It's a compulsively readable story about the tensions between the romantic childhood ideals we grow up with, and the family responsibilities that carry us into adulthood. Must our life choices remain irrevocable if the conditions are changed? It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace"-- the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different, because last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, over the next 24 hours, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband, Peter, and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love, Jonas, if a tragic event hadn't forever changed the course of their lives. As Heller colors in the experiences that have led Elle to this day, we arrive at her ultimate decision with all its complexity. Tender yet devastating, The Paper Palace considers the tensions between desire and dignity; the legacies of abuse; and the crimes and misdemeanors of families"-- No library descriptions found. |
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The time line - successfully - alternates between an almost hour-by-hour account of just one day, spent at Elle's slightly ramshackle family holiday home near the coast, and a resume of the fifty-some years of her life. I liked the ending. It's clear that the ends are not tied up. There are hints that the drama we have been following has not been fully resolved, and will go on to further scenes, possibly over an extended period. ( )