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A carregar... The Conjoined: A Novelpor Jen Sookfong Lee
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   asianamlitfans | Aug 22, 2019 |   ) veeshee | Jan 29, 2018 | If you like fiction with nice, tidy endings, then this probably isn't the book for you. The book implies much more than it tells, and you never get a straight this-is-how-they-died explanation about the foster girls. But in my opinion, the messiness of the ending, the grey reality of people's lives, the focus on character over crime, is one of the strengths of the book. This is a novel I will be thinking about for a good long while. ( ) bucketofrhymes | Dec 13, 2017 | This was a compulsive read for me. It is very well-written. I enjoyed going back and forth between the past, learning about the Cheng sisters, their upbringing and what lead them into foster care, and the present where Jessica is trying to figure out why her mother would murder two of her foster children. The ending wasn't what I was expecting, I wanted more. ( ) jenn88 | Apr 25, 2017 | Based on this, I expected the mother to be a real nasty piece of work. Instead, mom Donna is a gentle, granola, earthy saint of a woman who takes in foster kids. Influenced by her mother, Jessica has become a social worker with a case load of children in crisis and a do-gooder social warrior boyfriend. The story travels back in time to her mother and grandmother's past, the past of the dead girls and their parent's past. Along the way, Jessica discovers that her mother had had a few very dark chapters in her life. The Conjoined was a compelling read that always made me want to know more, with beautiful writing and interesting characters. Lee captures the feeling of Vancouver very well and makes it a secondary character in the book. What stopped the novel from being a five star read was that there were a few too many unanswered questions, the main one being that the mystery of the girls' death is unresolved. I understand what Lee was doing artistically, but I think ultimately it lets down the reader. Recommended for: Readers looking for something a little different, and books that accurately reflect diversity. Readers who need to like or admire the characters in a book might want to skip this one. ( ) Nickelini | Dec 5, 2016 |
 The Conjoined doesn’t provide the tidy resolution that readers have come to expect from books of this nature. The ultimate twist is that there is no twist, but that lack of traditional closure seems to be exactly the point. This novel acts as a troubling reminder of how little we really know about the backstories and motivations of the people we love and trust. In the universe Lee has created, coming to the truth is more about nuance, empathy and openhearted understanding than it is about any strict, simplistic set of rules about good and evil, right or wrong. In this way, The Conjoined is a complex, refreshing and relevant departure from a well-worn approach, one that’s best tackled after surrendering your expectations. The mystery of how the girls died is not the book’s main focus, but this captivating novel still moves with the pace of a thriller as it deftly fills in the gaps in the lives of several people, each fractured by horrors of their very own, joined as one in betrayal, trauma, and uncertainty.  Sookfong Lee’s treatment of the most shocking incidents in The Conjoined is far from salacious, but her narrative procedure relies on our hunger for details that, perhaps, we are better off not knowing. And it is possible she leaves us guessing a bit too much. Though the novel offers some kinds of resolution, for a book that relies so heavily on a procedure of successive narrative revelations, readers drawn in by these mystery-novel tropes may be disappointed to never learn exactly what happened to the girls. .. This subversion of expectations is quite usual for literary fiction, but The Conjoined lacks much of the other payoffs that literary fiction usually offers: rich imagery, artful prose style, fresh, deeply explored characters. For a novel that relies so heavily on the management of the reader’s knowledge and the deployment of ambiguities to create tension and release, the final balance between these is unsatisfying, and undercuts a central interest of the work. Sookfong Lee’s abilities as a story builder do elevate the material, though. Vancouver author Jen Sookfong Lee’s new novel, The Conjoined, is a fascinating look at family dynamics, mostly of the dysfunctional kind. The story begins with Jessica, a young social worker, whose mother has recently died from a terminal disease. Jessica and her dad, Gerry, are cleaning out her mother’s things when they make a gruesome discovery: two bodies in the freezer downstairs. ..Sookfong Lee is a gifted writer, telling a complicated story with depth and insight..The Conjoined is a quick, compelling read. But its characters and their stories will linger.
On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery - two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother s chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng - troubled, beautiful, and wild teenaged sisters from Vancouver s Chinatown. After six weeks, they disappeared; social workers, police officers, and Jessica herself assumed they had run away. As Jessica learns more about Casey, Jamie, and their troubled immigrant Chinese parents, she also unearths dark stories about Donna, whom she had always thought of as the perfect mother. The complicated truths she uncovers force her to take stock of her own life. Moving between present and past, this riveting novel unflinchingly examines the myth of social heroism and traces the often-hidden fractures that divide our diverse cities. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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