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The Iguana Tree (2012)

by Michel Stone(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

189188588X (ISBN13: 9781891885884)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Hub City Press

review 1: This is the story of a Mexican man who crosses into America illegally at great risk and discomfort, makes his way to South Carolina, where he works for a nurseryman on Edisto Island, and tries to save money to pay for his wife and daughter to be smuggled. The narrative cuts back and forth between his new life and hers back in Mexico, and it seemed slow-moving. But then she decides to make her own arrangements and hires her own smuggler, and the novel becomes exciting. Her husband must flee his fragile new roots and try to help her, and you see why the author took so much time establishing his new world—you realize how much he and she have to lose. The novel becomes compelling, a real page-turner, late in the story.I read this for our university's Common Book committee an... mored will recommend others read it for consideration. It is an important story which shows how much Mexicans risk and how much they suffer in trying to do honest work in America.
review 2: An odd book. It started off well; I felt a mix of suspense and hope about the characters' prospects. But before too long, the plot took a dive off a cliff and never recovered, while Hector and Lilia began to seem rather passive and flat. There were also some strange insinuations that seemed uncontested, namely that Lilia should have better obeyed her husband and that the characters' downfalls were the fault of their own bad choices rather than certain international political and economic factors. less

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