Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780547669236 (0547669232)
Publish date: August 7th 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
2.5 stars. I think this book would have gotten in a higher rating if I had been more in the mood for what it was, which is basically about being a journalist. I saw it at the library and read the first page or two--really really gorgeous writing--and decided to go ahead and check it out (even though...
This is a memoir that reads like a novel, and that's both a good and bad thing. Torregrosa has a sinuous, vague, slippery style of writing that I love in a good novel (I was reminded a bit of early '90s Jeannette Winterson) but feels a bit incomplete in a memoir. This story of 'love and revolution...
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