Willa & Hesper – Amy Feltman
€ 20.50
Willa’s darkness enters Hesper’s light late one night in Brooklyn. Theirs is a whirlwind romance until Willa starts to know Hesper too well, to crawl into her hidden spaces, and Hesper shuts her out. She runs, following her fractured family back to her grandfather’s hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia, looking for the origin story that he is no longer able to tell. But once in Tbilisi, cracks appear in her grandfather’s history-and a massive flood is heading toward Georgia, threatening any hope for repair.
Meanwhile, heartbroken Willa is so desperate to leave New York that she joins a group trip for Jewish twentysomethings to visit Holocaust sites in Germany and Poland, hoping to override her emotional state. When it proves to be more fraught than home, she must come to terms with her past-the ancestral past, her romantic past, and the past that can lead her forward.
Waarom dit boek lezen?
In deze bedachtzame debuutroman worden twee studenten aan Columbia’s MFA-programma in 2016 meegezogen in een intense romance die even snel ontvlamt als uitdooft. Ze beginnen voorzichtig te navigeren door het onbekende terrein van daten met vrouwen, een ervaring die voor beiden nieuw is, en vertellen afwisselend hoofdstukken vanuit hun perspectief.  Feltman vermijdt conventionele happy endings in deze scherpzinnige en doorvoelde roman.
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