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Everyone Leaves (2006)

by Wendy Guerra(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1469207923 (ISBN13: 9781469207926)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Brilliance Audio

review 1: Wonderful story of a woman's rise to adulthood in Cuba during the late 70s, 80s and 90s. As a young child, her parents divorce and the mother marries a Swede. The father is able to fight in court to get custody of her and he beats, starves, and fails to send her to school regularly. Eventually she allowed to go back to her mother but quickly sent to a reeducation school. Later she is sent to military school and when she is 18, leaves mom for a boyfriend. People leave in droves for the US and Europe if they can but Nieve, the girl, stays in Cuba. Waiting for an escape.
review 2: There is a general rule of thumb that if you make it (100-your age) pages into a book, and you aren't captivated, you should give up, given that life and the number of books you'll be ab... morele to read in yours is finite, and you shouldn't waste your time on books that aren't grabbing you. This one isn't. It looked good; I enjoy reading memoirs and autobiographical fiction by women from backgrounds different from my own, I've barely read anything by Cuban authors, but this was dull. It didn't give any sense of scenery or history, the author clearly had issues with both of her parents, but even a scene where Nieve, our thinly-veiled protagonist, finds a locked room in her father's house filled with voodoo (bijeria) dolls of her mother, skulls and a shrunken head seemed flat. This is likely the fault of the translator, given how popular this book was abroad, but I couldn't invest another minute. Moving on. less

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