Amygail's review
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel
by Brady Udall
nice review! i'm going to put this on my to-read list.
Amygail's review
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel by Brady Udall
Amygail's review
rating:
This is the first book I have read set on an Apache reservation. (I have only read and visited the Cherokee so far.) The characters are sooo real. They are lovable even with their horrible faults. I felt like I was a fly on a wall watching people. It is so hilarious and yet depressing. And, the ending has an ironic surprise.
Some of my favorite quotes:
"The thing I fear most is forgetting, so I have become a hoarder, a pack rat..." (I certainly identify with this :).)
When describing the first afro Edgar has ever seen: "...so large and unruly that it seemed to have a personality all its own....looming like a great thundercloud..."
In describing his receiving a typewriter: "Sue Kay carried it into the room..holding it with a certain stiffness, as it if was a velvet pillow with the crown of England on top...she rushed it over like an organ that needed transplanting."
Edgar's Grandmother Paul said, "...only one trustworthy white person in all of h...more
Some of my favorite quotes:
"The thing I fear most is forgetting, so I have become a hoarder, a pack rat..." (I certainly identify with this :).)
When describing the first afro Edgar has ever seen: "...so large and unruly that it seemed to have a personality all its own....looming like a great thundercloud..."
In describing his receiving a typewriter: "Sue Kay carried it into the room..holding it with a certain stiffness, as it if was a velvet pillow with the crown of England on top...she rushed it over like an organ that needed transplanting."
Edgar's Grandmother Paul said, "...only one trustworthy white person in all of h...more
nice review! i'm going to put this on my to-read list.
