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American Music (2010)

by Jane Mendelsohn(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307272664 (ISBN13: 9780307272669)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Knopf

review 1: I would have given this book five stars, as it is written creatively and well enough to somehow give me the sense that I was in the room with the main characters, but this love story doesn't end happily every after. Instead of allowing the healing of generations of emotional wounds to affect both main characters, Mendelsohn kills off Milo, leaving Honor and their new baby with another set of wounds that may never heal and begins another generation with a less-than-ideal family. As the major healing that did happen in the book had to do with family dysfunction, this reader was hoping for some of Milo's wounds to heal, at least enough for him to make a new life with Honor. I'm not trivializing the effects and the long-term nature of PTSD, but I am disappointed that problems ... morewere deemed insurmountable and suicide an acceptable answer. American Music is a work of fiction after all, so why end on such a sour note?
review 2: The story was interesting but I had such a hard time getting into it. I just wanted to get to the conclusion and be done. It didn't flow well , it jumped all over. It had 4-5+ little stories to follow and seemed like some of the names were the same. Some times it didn't separate and you didn't know which story you was in. By the middle I finally understood the story but still had to regroup and think about which couple it was talking about at each turn. Maybe it was because I was listening to it instead of reading. I may have understood and gotten more out of it if I had read the book. At this point I'm not so sure I want to attempt it. I didn't like the ending and how the guy ended things. I'm not going to spoil or say anything about the book for those who wish to read it. Angel and warrior??? a concept I thought was a little stupid, conclusion was lame. less

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