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Body And Bread (2013)

by Nan Cuba(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1938126068 (ISBN13: 9781938126062)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Engine Books

review 1: Transubstantiation....taking something broken and transforming it.....a prequel to destruction with the hope of resurrection....an ambivalent sacrifice and blessing.... This dual theme is intertwined throughout Body and Bread as Sarah grieves for the loss of her brother and discovers the connectivity between the past, present, herself, and others. It's an honest and insightful read, grappling with the complex nature of identity through sensory details, setting, and Sarah's first person metaphysical perspective. The reader realizes along with Sarah that we never stop coming-of-age.
review 2: Like an archaeologist meticulously excavating a dig of great consequence, Nan Cuba reveals, layer by layer, the complex history of three linked families, their alliances and... more mesalliances, and the secrets that threaten to tear the surviving members apart. The author's keen eye, like that of a seasoned natural scientist, misses nothing--from the exquisite details of the natural world to the precisely choreographed ambulation of a paraplegic. I was especially captivated by the narrator, a distinguished professor, who, despite her academic achievements, lives a solitary, even hermetic existence. Dr. Sarah Pelton does not present as a warm and fuzzy character--stand-offish, self-absorbed, determinedly ensconced in her ivory tower--but unresolved grief around the suicide of her cherished older brother reveals the all-too-human self masked by her absorption in scholarship. Pelton's nuanced flashbacks to childhood reveal a very different Sarah: at once the bright daughter of parents preaching tradition and respectability and the impressionable sister who idolizes her maverick, self-destructive brother, ever urging her to embrace the unfamiliar and chart her own course. Part coming-of-age story, part spiritual journey, Body and Bread is an intelligent, compassionate narrative that deftly navigates the vital realms of myth and memory, death and rebirth. less

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