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Rating:  Summary: The Truth Retold Review: I absolutely loved this book. I thought it was imaginative, truthful and articulate. Everything a reader wish for in a novel. Never before have I connected with a novel like I did with this one. Her section, "A Feather on the Breath of God" was an especially captivating part. A good read for anyone: Male or Female. Young or Old. Asian or Not. You will truly not be able to put this book down!
Rating:  Summary: The heaviest feather Review: Minimal but believable detail. Nunez has mastered the shorthand of human soul. Sensitive. Provocative. Memorable.
Rating:  Summary: Provocative Novel Review: The speaker in Nunez's touching novel struggles with issues concerning her cultural identity, her relationships with her parents, and her relationships with men. She constantly deals with how her genes, her parent's cultures, and her upbringing in America have come together to form a cultural identity. As the daughter of a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother, the speaker grows up with two distinct cultural influences. She finds herself pulled in different directions, unsure of what aspect of her should define her cultural identity more, or if it is possible to find a balance between them all. The speaker also reexamines her relationship with her parents and her obsession with ballet through nostalgic memories and insight. Through her writing, the speaker comes to terms with her parents' unhappy marriage as well as the notion that her love of ballet stemmed from a desire for perfection and escape from her dysfunctional family. The reader will find that Nunez spins a memorable story that thoroughly engages the reader, and is a must read for anyone interested in issues concerning immigration, multiculturalism, coming of age in a culture that rewards beauty and thinness, identity, and international relationships.
Rating:  Summary: honest and spare Review: There were many reasons I felt I had to read this book (my interest in writers even vaguely Latin American being one of them) and I am glad that I did.My favorite part was definitely "Immigrant Love," the last section of the book, where the narrator has an affair with a Russian immigrant. "He has no curiosity at all about me. After all, I am only a woman; facts about me can't be very important." One of the most honest portrayals of the complexities of human relationships that I have ever read. As a dancer, I found "A Feather on the Breath of God," the third section, interesting and surprisingly foreign to my own experience, but none the less enriching to read. The novel's spare structure makes you feel the necessity of every word on the page.
Rating:  Summary: not a light feather Review: There were many reasons I felt I had to read this book (my interest in writers even vaguely Latin American being one of them) and I am glad that I did. My favorite part was definitely "Immigrant Love," the last section of the book, where the narrator has an affair with a Russian immigrant. "He has no curiosity at all about me. After all, I am only a woman; facts about me can't be very important." One of the most honest portrayals of the complexities of human relationships that I have ever read. As a dancer, I found "A Feather on the Breath of God," the third section, interesting and surprisingly foreign to my own experience, but none the less enriching to read. The novel's spare structure makes you feel the necessity of every word on the page.
Rating:  Summary: A Great Novel Review: This book was one of the most honest books I've ever read. Daniel Clausen daniel clausen dot com
Rating:  Summary: not a light feather Review: This isn't a novel at least to me it doesn't read like one, it reads like a diary.There are too many things in it that don't connect with anything else and left me wondering why they were there in the first place.
Rating:  Summary: Passionate Storyteller Review: You'll never want your daughter to take ballet! I gave this book to my brother-in-law (an avid reader and medical scholar) and he had to stop himself from calling me in the middle of the night (when he finished reading it) to tell me how much he liked it.
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