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Nina Revoyr

Auteur van Southland

6+ Werken 877 Leden 71 Besprekingen

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Fotografie: Carolyn Kellogg and Nina Revoyr (right)
at 2007 LA Times Festival of Books
Copyright © 2007 Ron Hogan

Werken van Nina Revoyr

Southland (2003) 228 exemplaren
Wingshooters (2011) 206 exemplaren
The Necessary Hunger (1997) 173 exemplaren
The Age of Dreaming (2008) 109 exemplaren
Lost Canyon (2015) 100 exemplaren
A Student of History (2019) 61 exemplaren

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Couldn't put it down. Revoyr's writing is so good...I felt like I was walking along with Rick, looking over his shoulder.

Will someone I know please hurry up and read it so we can talk about it?!
 
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Chris.Wolak | 13 andere besprekingen | Oct 13, 2022 |
Sad story set in Wisconsin. Small town politics, child abuse and racism.
 
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wincheryl | 11 andere besprekingen | Jun 20, 2022 |
It's pretty good historical fiction/mystery, about Japanese American and African American history in LA. It's told in three time periods; the 40's, covering WWII and internment camps; the Watts Riots, and then 1994.

The story did hold my interest, and an interesting setting, but at times I felt that Revoyr tried to do too much, and the story could have been told with fewer characters and details. The lesbian sup-plot seemed like an add-on that didn't add a lot.

I did like the historical detail. I was especially interested in the parts about the experience of Japanese American GI's.… (meer)
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banjo123 | 9 andere besprekingen | May 8, 2022 |
i really liked this so much. it was so layered and about so many things, all of them interesting and worth talking about. i found it a little difficult to keep some of the characters and time periods straight in my head since we were going between the 40s (during wwii), the 60s (around and during the watts riots), and 1994 and were bouncing between two families, and so many perspectives. but i did really like the way she told this story, with so many different voices carrying it through.

so many interesting characters, and the realistic and everyday tragedy that is not knowing someone of an older generation until it's too late, and learning about them after their death. seeing how much you could have gotten from a relationship with them once it's too late. the racism and how it was both the same and different when it was experienced by the japanese and the blacks. the internment camps - i don't think i've read fiction that takes place there before, and i learned a lot. there is so much nuance and sadness and violence and beauty in this book. i loved the characters of curtis and jimmy and jackie and frank. the immigrant stories, the racism faced by the japanese and the black families, the hiding of self that happens when you don't want to discuss your sexuality. the way the characters throughout history all had something to relate to others because of their histories and their treatment. (the way frank and alma understood what their families had gone through, even though it was so different, because it was all oppression and prejudice.) plus the murders and the figuring out of who did it. the murders were the backdrop of the story but not nearly the most interesting thing. the relationships and the histories, this is what made this book shine.

the only problems i had with the book were first of all that jackie and jimmy kissed at all; that made no sense really for either of them. they were vulnerable and overcome with emotion in general, but they could have sobbed together instead, and that would have felt just as natural. but not such a big deal. it also annoyed me the way she kept talking in a denigrating way about her friend rebecca's asian features. i know that was more an issue with her own self-image and discomfort with her own asian heritage, but it didn't feel good to see her project that onto someone else. i do love the arc she takes, though, back toward her heritage and history, and how that manifests in an attraction to rebecca at the end. my biggest hiccup in the book, what kept taking me out of the story was a consistent issue, most often in the 1994 sections where jackie was the third person narrator. over and over again we'd get a glimpse into someone else's head, just for a paragraph or sentence, but it was something jackie shouldn't have known and so we shouldn't know it either. an example, from a curtis chapter: "...the Irish cop drove by, and they all appealed silently for him to stop." it should say something like "...the Irish cop drove by and Curtis knew he wasn't the only one silently appealing for him to stop." because in this chapter we are only in curtis' head. this happens over and over again and it was both annoying and also in some cases confusing, but always drew me out of the story. if not for these things it'd be 4.5 stars, or even 5.

even so, those aren't huge deals and this book overcomes them anyway. there is so much happening here that makes this book worthwhile. i also like the ambiguity of the ending. we don't know if justice, even belatedly, will be served or what will happen to any of those implicated in the murders.
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overlycriticalelisa | 9 andere besprekingen | Apr 17, 2022 |

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6
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Leden
877
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½ 3.7
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