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Sleep In Me (2010)

by Jon Pineda(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0803225350 (ISBN13: 9780803225350)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

University of Nebraska Press

review 1: A beautiful memoir about his teenage years and the injury, and eventual loss, of his older sister to a car accident. While the book reads as a whole, and is chronologically arranged over the span of about 8 years, each "chapter" works more like a stand-alone essay, connected to the whole, but also standing on its own. Jon Pineda is a poet, and that background is obvious in so many of the essays, in the word choice, the development of metaphor, and his comfort in trusting the power of an image to convey meaning. So many of these essays read like poems in which the boundaries of form were removed, letting the writer spill over the margins to include everything that he wanted to say.
review 2: Interesting to me because the author is a poet, now writing a memoir... more. It is the re-telling of the author's childhood years. His his older sister is at the height of popularity and beauty, when she gets into a horrific car accident that leaves her paralyzed and brain damaged. The story was sad and there were moments I liked in respect to their relationship, but overall it was a little slow. He used a sparse style, which sometimes can work, but for this book I think it did not work well. I wanted more detail. less

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