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A Thousand Tiny Truths (2012)

by Kyo Maclear(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1742611524 (ISBN13: 9781742611525)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Picador Australia

review 1: I think my favourite part of this book was the narrator, Marcel. Spanning his life from childhood to middle age, you get lots of time to fall in love with this sensitive, mixed-race child with the unusual upbringing. I also loved the setting (1960s England and Vietnam), which is rife with tension and change. The book moved a long at a nice pace and I greatly appreciated Maclear's tone, which was literary but breezy. I knew her as a children's author but was pleased to discover that she is equally comfortable in the sphere of adult fiction. I eagerly await her next novel!
review 2: Maclear, author of the critically acclaimed The Letter Opener, shines in her newest novel, Stray Love.She captures the era of the 1960s with all its upheaval through the eyes of a you... moreng mixed-race boy. This boy, Marcel, follows his war reporter guardian to Vietnam at the beginning of the conflict.The horrible things he sees in Saigon as well as the terrible way he is treated by his runaway mother, and the children around him, affect him for life. The introduction into his life of a young girl, the daughter of his childhood best friend, offers him not only a catalyst for his own memories of childhood but also a prodding to take his own life into his hands and make a blank slate of it. This gives Marcel hope for his future, for the future of his young ward, Iris, who is of mixed race like her mother and temporary guardian. It also gives the reader hope that we have changed and the terrible way children like Marcel were treated can stop when society changes.Maclear is a powerful and expressive writer, one of Canada's best. This book is sublime and should be on awards lists everywhere this fall. less

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