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A review by lrc52
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
5.0
I'm not sure why I loved this book exactly. I think it was the the family's imperfect love for each other. That frustrating desperate love that holds you together so often through the hard times. The joyous happy love in the moments of normalcy that softens the sharpness of past hurts. The overwhelming grief that only talking with ghosts can reconcile. All of this while new love is happening too--or new old love. I felt expanded by this novel--filled with the more of it all.
Families. "Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." (Tolstoy) But aren't all families happy and not happy? We don't all hang lights--some of us scribble missives on the walls--but we all have deep disappointment layered under and over the knowing that we are together for better or worse.
The main characters in this book were so real. So true. I sometimes felt me in the room with me. I recognized myself in them. I felt at home with them.
This is why I loved this book.
Families. "Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." (Tolstoy) But aren't all families happy and not happy? We don't all hang lights--some of us scribble missives on the walls--but we all have deep disappointment layered under and over the knowing that we are together for better or worse.
The main characters in this book were so real. So true. I sometimes felt me in the room with me. I recognized myself in them. I felt at home with them.
This is why I loved this book.