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Mar 11, 2012
Daisy
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it was amazing
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What an exercise in coming to terms (maybe) with the unanswered questions left behind after suicide. And what a stunning, concise story of the author's paternal grandparents' lives, of what they meant to each other, what they meant to her and to family and friends. In spare prose, it's almost a novella. I kept pretending it was fiction until somewhere she refers to her own last name and how it was altered to sound less Jewish, more Hungarian.
Adorján's writing is unsentimental even about potenti ...more
Adorján's writing is unsentimental even about potenti ...more
