Tea
A Historical, Literary Fiction, Contemporary book. I simply could not get into this book. The long passages of narrative and...
On a spring day in 1968, eight-year-old Isabel Gold sets out tea, just so, for her unpredictable, ever-moody mother, and sits down to wait, certain that this will do it: her mother will drink the tea Isabel has made and recover from her mysterious sadness. But the tea goes untouched. Isabel's mother remains out of reach, a kind of melancholy stranger Isabel struggles to understand.Then, her mother kills herself.As Isabel comes of age, that incomprehensible act haunts her....
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 317 pages
- ISBN: 9781565122437 / 1565122437
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More About Tea
I am sitting cross-legged on the floor of my living room, sipping tea out of a mug with a farm scene on the front--a barn and a silo and green fields and a farmhouse, canopied by huge, beautiful night stars. It is my third cup of the day and has gone cold twice already. To me, this tea is a thing of permanence. A reminder of my father... I simply could not get into this book. The long passages of narrative and unexciting writing were simply too much to overcome.I went back and tried to read this book again and managed to get through it. Written in a very literary style, the sections of this book are Morning, Afternoon, and Evening, the three stages of Isabel's life... This one had no discernible plot in the first 75 pages; it was just preoccupied with trivial details of domestic dysfunction.
