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Bohemian Girl (2011)

by Terese Svoboda(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0803226829 (ISBN13: 9780803226821)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Bison Books

review 1: Novel written by a poet. Poets are the best writers. Poets write the best sentences that seem to describe events and clauses in multiple fragments, and combine them into succinct sentences. The imagery in Bohemian Girl is wondrous and sharply emotional, from heartbreaking baby carrying escapes to those same people growing up later and learning what their world is like. Slavery also figures prominently, as do Native Americans, but not always in the usual ways you would expect. Slavery is almost misted over as a noise heard in the landscape, and also life threatening. And a Native American keeps slaves to build mounds, nearly an OCD control freak depiction of slavery. Recommended for readers who like poetry and intense small town America fiction.
review 2: I was ... morereally looking forward to this (did you READ the description?), and my adult book reading time is sacred, so I was sad when I didn't really like it. Svoboda is a poet, this is her first novel -- and the book might have been better off as a long epic poem. The language is beautiful, and maybe if I hadn't read it right after a string of fast-paced YA thrillers I would have been more ready to take my time with it. I STILL want to like it. Maybe I'll try again someday. less

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