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The Disappearance Of Irene Dos Santos (2009)

by Margaret Mascarenhas(Favorite Author)

3.21 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0446541109 (ISBN13: 9780446541107)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Popular Library

review 1: 3.5. Was originally a 4, up until the last chapter. There could have been a little less of the Spanish words that were not translated, but I loved the writing, loved they way the author has one person telling their story and that then leads into the next story and then the next and how everything is interrelated. Thought I had it all figured out but still am not quite sure what exactly happened in the end and what it all meant. Is it all fact or fiction or half and half or what? Looking forward to the book discussion to see what the ending means.
review 2: Lily is expecting the birth of her first child in Venezuela. After a fall puts her pregnancy at risk, her friends and family come together to take care of her and perform a novena; nine days of prayers starti... moreng with each of them telling a story. Lily has dreams/visions of her friend Irene, who disappeared while on a trip with Lily's family, presumed drowned. Coinciding with her fall is the breakage of the statue of Maria Lionza, a local saint figure/goddess with several different aspects/appearances. As each story unfolds, we see a piece of Lily's history and that of Venezuela, with some of the stories seeming to be completely unrelated, at least at first. We see how Irene's unconventional home life gets Lily into trouble, causing Lily to be sent to a Catholic boarding school. While the girls secretly keep in touch, and eventually Irene joins the family trip to the wilds, we see that the drowning may have not been an accident after all. The story drew me in and I was intrigued by the culture and Maria Lionza; however, I found the ending to be odd and a bit baffling, which keeps me from giving it a higher rating. less

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