Friday, July 12, 2024

Life, Loss, and Puffins

Fiction by Catherine Ryan Hyde

This is peripherally a story within a story; it begins with a woman called Ru telling a couple of teenaged girls about her life. The dates are ambiguous, and I don’t know how old Ru is supposed to be at the beginning, but I don’t think she’s an old lady. The point of the telling is not reveal until the very end of the book. 

Ru begins her story at age thirteen when she meets her best friend Gabriel, who is not her boyfriend. The events that unfold are interesting and surprising, and the reader will fall in love with both Gabriel and Ru herself. 

This was a really good book with great characters and a lot to think about, as I’ve come to expect from this author.


I also read recently by this author: Just a Regular Boy

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