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I'm not sure how I even heard of this novella but Alejandro Zambra, but it was definitely an interesting piece.

Going home... to a warm bed, nice people, and homemade dinner:
- I loved the blurred lines of author, narrator/writer, and character. It's the quintessential question that good fiction should bring up: what is true and what is not?
- I appreciate the length- I think that people may complain about the lack of depth in the characters or plot, but one must remember that it is a novella. Zambra tells us what we need to know- a sort of trust is necessary when dealing with shorter works.
- It's story about going home- when do we need to, how do we get there, and most importantly, what does staying entail (physically and mentally)?
- It's also a story about a break up, on two levels (both in real life and in the book he writes; in a way it is just one, though). It isn't a highly emotional break up with pages of laments, but instead one that is hauntingly sad and simplistically complicated.

Going Home... to your friend's couch, ramen, and a cat who hates you:
- I had hoped for a little more of Chilean history to matter, to impact. I felt like it was set up in the beginning to be more of a force, but it really hung in the background.
- I thought some of the tie-ins and connections towards the end were a little sloppy.

I thought this was a quick, interesting read, but, to be honest, I'd wait until it comes into paperback- the price is pretty steep for what it is.


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Ways of Going Home A Novel Alejandro Zambra Megan McDowell 9780374286644 Books Reviews

great book
Tricky and deep, oblique exposition of Chile during the Pinochet years and beyond
Nice copy
This was great that I could download it onto my fire.. it was an English class requirement So I'm grateful for that. However, the book itself is just blah. The story lacks substance. It was boring. Sorry, but I will not be reading any more books from this author.
I was enthralled with the March 2016 review of this book in the NY Times. I find that I still prefer the review to the book (and it is almost as long). This book left me dismayed at my own inabilities to grasp what was so enticed me in the review. It was disjointed; it was dull; it was trying too hard to be deep. Near the end I learned from the novelist himself that I should have realized that it wasn’t for me and given up on it, but I kept slogging on through 139 pages, hoping for that magic moment when either it or I broke through.
I found the characters interesting, especially the narrator - he has a lot of wise things to say about mundane as well as important things - like parent-children relationships, etc. but i was not engaged in the narrative which is a series of visits to former homes and neighborhoods, meeting girlfriends, relatives, friends and just chatting over the past. True, there is a little mystery thrown and the narrator gets a chance to be an unpaid 'spy' but it's just a little game this girl, Claudia, wants to play; it's not enough to grip me. Excellent translation, though.
This book is lovely because of its transparency and simplicity, and because those qualities merge with deep themes about memory and trauma. It’s about the eyes of a child as compared to eyes of a young adult. This novel could have been pretentious but it works really well. It holds your interest, has a mystery in it, as well as insights into life before and after a dictatorship.
I'm not sure how I even heard of this novella but Alejandro Zambra, but it was definitely an interesting piece.

Going home... to a warm bed, nice people, and homemade dinner
- I loved the blurred lines of author, narrator/writer, and character. It's the quintessential question that good fiction should bring up what is true and what is not?
- I appreciate the length- I think that people may complain about the lack of depth in the characters or plot, but one must remember that it is a novella. Zambra tells us what we need to know- a sort of trust is necessary when dealing with shorter works.
- It's story about going home- when do we need to, how do we get there, and most importantly, what does staying entail (physically and mentally)?
- It's also a story about a break up, on two levels (both in real life and in the book he writes; in a way it is just one, though). It isn't a highly emotional break up with pages of laments, but instead one that is hauntingly sad and simplistically complicated.

Going Home... to your friend's couch, ramen, and a cat who hates you
- I had hoped for a little more of Chilean history to matter, to impact. I felt like it was set up in the beginning to be more of a force, but it really hung in the background.
- I thought some of the tie-ins and connections towards the end were a little sloppy.

I thought this was a quick, interesting read, but, to be honest, I'd wait until it comes into paperback- the price is pretty steep for what it is.