The Medusa Tree

by Mylène Dressler

When Marget reaches the orderly house of her Dutch-Indonesian grandmothers, she learns that if she only pays attention to them, then she can go unnoticed herself. And that is exactly what she needs. Marget is pregnant and alone. With her dancing career over and her mother absent, as always, Marget must decide for herself whether it is wise to continue the raveling line of her extended family. Like Amy Tan before her, Dressler tells a powerful story about a family of women, not all related by blood, who manage despite their differences to provide one another sanctuary.

180 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Jane Doe]

1 star
Continued to be confusing. Not sure what the point was.
Some good writing but it got lost in the jumping around
from one thing to another.

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I’m not sure where to start this…this ebook was 89 pages, but it felt much longer. I couldn’t figure out if this was historically correct or not. I was confused from start to finish in this story.

Yes, there are some nicely worded sentences, but overall the flow was off. There were things that were written about that were so vague, it was difficult to figure things out and then the story would switch to a writing style that was so small and detail oriented that it slowed the story down.

I found this story interesting in parts but they were far and few between in this mostly bewildering story.

[Brenda]

OK read. Drags in some parts. Only good line in book was when Gerda says, "If you wait and are good and you stay in the back, you will get nowhere fast."

[Lisa the Tech]

I was unimpressed by the lack of proper ending. Another fifty pages would not have hurt the book, if only to come up with something better.

[Sarah Stone]

language very beautiful and poetic. plot sort of lacking.