This book was a solid 4 stars for me. Hegi's writing style is insightful and concise - she tells a full story without excess writing. I enjoyed the insights into the mind of an effective teacher, as provided by the main character, Thekla, who intends to shepherd her students through the early day...
This is the fourth novel in the Burgdorf Cycle. This series chronicles the life of the people and events of the small German village. As in all of her novels Hegi's voice shines through here. Hegi chooses the young fourth grade teacher Thekla Jansen to build this story around. We get small morsel...
A complex collection of intriguing stories. Collections of short stories are notorious for being uneven, sucking you in with the best stories early on and then scattering thinner offerings across most of the other pages.Having read Stones from the River and The Vision of Emma Blau, I knew Hegi is...
Brooklyn is the place where our first person narrator Audrey grew up, was a child, and this book is about leaving Brooklyn. It is filled with the insights that belong to a child; you know that when you read them because some recall your own childhood. But there is an unusual character playing a m...
-- ask me, Annie. Ask me what's the worst thing I've done. Ask, goddammit. Because then you'll know I'll never go beyond last night.Tonight, Annie is driving alone from North Sea to Montauk and back again, as she has every night since her husband, Mason, challenged what she believed about herself...
Hudak from downstairs. James has dark curly hair, and he works as a waiter at a downtown restaurant where he has to wear a tuxedo. But this afternoon, James is not wearing anything, and as he moves beneath Leonora, his face flushed, she feels distracted by images of her husband: Victor tiling the...
