Full review. What I loved most about this novel was Leveen's sensitive look at the emotional implications of being a wetnurse. Angelica has just lost her child when she's given infant Juliet; it's no wonder she fell in love with the needy infant she nurtured. But that relationship is fraught, for ...
This is grief's great trick: you think you have faced the worst of it, not dreaming of all that is yet to come. I, like many others, had to read Romeo and Juliet back in high school. When I first read the book I fell in love with it and couldn't get enough of the star-crossed lovers (oh how young I...
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