Dear Fang, With Love: A novel
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (595 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B014NZJOCM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 325 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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17 year-old Vera shines in this story of teen angst, mental illness, and family history Headline:Seventeen year-old protagonist Vera shines in this story of teen angst, mental illness, and family history.Major Themes:Teen angst, mental illness, family history, the Holocaust, father/daughter relationshipsWhat I Liked:- It’s difficult to pinpoint what this book is truly about because it’s about teen angst, mental illness, and family history and relationships without being overly about any one of those things. They all kind of balance each other out into a story that ends up being about the people (mainly Vera . I really enjoyed Rufi Thorpe's second book and learned about parts of A captivating look at family history, the Holocaust and the struggle of mental illness that families and individuals face.I really enjoyed Rufi Thorpe's second book and learned about parts of the Holocaust that were new to me, as the majority of the book takes place in Lithuania.I highly recommend Dear Fang, With Love.. S. Rideout said Best I have read in a long time. Beautifully written - thought-provoking - and although sad, ultimately hopeful.
“One of the finest releases of 2016… Thorpe is a major talent, and reading her work will bring to mind other writers who deftly control their universes with such clarity and acuity, like Donna Tartt or Ann Patchett.” —Martin McClellan, The Seattle Review of Books “Thorpe excels at immersing readers in a foreign setting …. Brown, The Washington Post “Vera and Lucas and their tour companions will live on in the reader’s imagination, all of them longing for something that seems out of reach, or if achieved, then grasped too late… As much as the characters live on, so too
Here, in the city of Vilnius, Lucas hopes to save Vera from the sorrow of her diagnosis. But after Vera suffers a terrifying psychotic break at a high school party, Lucas takes her to Lithuania, his grandmother's homeland, for the summer. Why did Lucas abandon her as a baby? What really happened the night of her breakdown? And who can she trust with the truth? Skillfully weaving family mythology and Lithuanian history with a story of mental illness, inheritance, young love, and adventure, Rufi Thorpe has written a breathtakingly intelligent, emotionally enthralling book.From the Hardcover edition.. A bold, spellbinding novel featuring one of the most fascinating protagonists in recent memory, Dear Fang, With Love tells the story of seventeen-year-old Vera—ravishing, troubled, wildly intelligent—who travels to Europe with her estranged father, hoping that an immersion in history might help them forget his past mistakes and her uncertain future.Lucas and Katya were boarding school seniors when, blindingly in love, they decided to have a baby. Seventeen years
She lives in California with her husband and sons.From the Hardcover edition.. Her first novel, The Girls from Corona del Mar, was long-listed for the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize and for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. RUFI THORPE received her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2009