Kim's review
Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
Kim's review
rating:
recommended for: sentimentalists, romantics, loners, broken-hearted, francophiles
status: Read in May, 2007
rating:
recommended for: sentimentalists, romantics, loners, broken-hearted, francophiles
status: Read in May, 2007
I finished the translation of Anna Gavalda's lovely novel through a veil of tears. I'd grown to adore the characters so. As I savored the final chapters, it was almost as if I were about to part forever from my only true love. I've already read Gavalda's first book, a short story collection I raved about a few years ago with a most Miranda July-ish title, "I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere." I feel the French author is a kindred spirit especially since some reviewers consider her to be "too sentimental," something I've been accused of more than a few times. This I won't deny in the same breath as I admit that it's not the first time I've cried over a book on a plane filled with strangers.
