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Traveling alone internationally one often experiences a sense of suspended identity. The networks and communities that usually surround one disappear. One senses, although it is probably not true, that it would be possible to simply vanish into another life and identity, leaving all connections to the past behind. In this novel, the narrator travels to Casablanca after some personal crisis that is not specified until the end of the novel. Almost immediately upon arrival her passport, credit card
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Usually I am put off by the use of the second person. In this novel, it didn't bother me as much. It can be gimmicky or tedious, but not here. Instead it actually makes the story more intimate.
This book is not as subtle as her other books, if I remember right, but it's easily readable and interesting. There's a good premise and I really wondered how the main character would get herself out of her mess. Like Vida's other novels, this heroine is lost and searching. It deals with identity and re-i ...more
This book is not as subtle as her other books, if I remember right, but it's easily readable and interesting. There's a good premise and I really wondered how the main character would get herself out of her mess. Like Vida's other novels, this heroine is lost and searching. It deals with identity and re-i ...more
A quick read with some interesting ideas (how much do we use travel to escape our lives and identities at home) but entirely preposterous plotting. The end in particular bothered me because after being asked for so long to suspend disbelief, the last few pages are so ridiculous they make the whole book seem sillier than it needed to be.
Mar 23, 2016
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Absorbing enough but somehow unsatisfying. The premise: single woman stranded in Morocco with her passport and money stolen finds a series of ways to survive, and is still doing so when the book ends. During the story we gradually discover her back story which explains why she is there, and for me this was the most interesting part.
Sep 17, 2015
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