Rebecca Serle
Autore di In Five Years
Serie
Opere di Rebecca Serle
Untitled (Famous in Love, #3) 2 copie
Zerbrechliches Herz 1 copia
THE DINNER LIST. A NOVEL 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 20th century
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York City, New York, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Istruzione
- MFA New School in New York City
- Attività lavorative
- Author
Television writer
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 21
- Utenti
- 4,340
- Popolarità
- #5,780
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 226
- ISBN
- 119
- Lingue
- 7
This story opens with the untangling of grief: a mother dies, a daughter leaves, the Amalfi Coast awaits. Katy, a 30-year-old copywriter, leaves her L.A. life behind, including her husband, days after she loses her mom, her anchor and talisman. Lost and lamenting, she hopes to find answers and solace in Positano, the place her mother visited and fell in love with before she was a mother. The magical-realism comes into play when Katy’s mother, Carol, shows up on this Italian trip—posthumously as the 30-year-old version of herself—befriending her future daughter, which seems to work because of the timelessness of the place: “The magic of Italy seems to be in its ability to connect to some time out of time, some era that is unmarked by modernity” (142).
Through the magic of the setting and myths and altered-time, Katy searches for who she is without her mother, who she wants to be with, and what she wants to do with her life—all while learning about who her mother was before she was her mother. What better place to search for your soul than on the cliffs of Italy, walking up the stairway of The Path of the Gods?
I really enjoyed the honesty of Katy’s journey: the ugliness of grief, the sometimes false perception we have of parents, the hard choices we have to make that don’t define us but help us find our way back home. I also enjoyed, like I did with In Five Years, wondering how the magic and the reality would be reconciled in the end (which didn’t disappoint).
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