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| Anna In-Between |  | Author: Elizabeth Nunez
Publisher: Akashic Books
Category: Book
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Seller: cheapbookman77
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 529,214
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 1933354844
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781933354842
ASIN: 1933354844
Publication Date: September 1, 2009
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Product Description
The finest novel yet from one of the most exalted Caribbean writers.
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Living in two cultures February 2, 2010
Rosa J. Hilliard (Florissant, MO USA)
I really enjoyed this book. Many people living "between" two cultures can understand Anna's feelings.
I could feel how Anna felt being torn apart trying to reconcile her life in the United States with the way life is lived on her Caribbean Island (which is never identified), but many people from many different cultures,not only caribbean cultures, can identify with Anna and her thoughts. For example the choice of breakfast her parents would eat opposed to the breakfast Anna had become accustomed to.
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Home on the Island for a Visit September 16, 2009
C. E. Selby
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Anna is in between her parents. The setting for this novel is an unnamed Caribbean island where an elderly couple, Beatric and John Sinclair, were born and lived their lives. Their only child, Anna, the editor for a little-known publishing house in New York City, has returned to the island to spend thirty-one days with her parents. They have lived for many years in their lovely gated home where Beatrice allows John his fish pond. She is in charge of everything domestic, including daily guidance given to her elderly gardener and her housekeeper. All meals, including afteroon tea, have strictly adhered to times. This is a mixed-race family whom the reader learns about slowly as the novel moves from day to day, in routines that could become boring without the back stories.
John is a well-respected man on the island. And his wife has maintained a well-established decorum that she feels is necessary for the elite class. Anna, however, has left for the United States. Her mother sees no reason for having done so except Beatrice is proud that her daughter has become an editor in a publishing house.
Beatrice was not born into that upper class. And slowly we are given a historical tour of how people of various races have come to the island, mixed--or not mixed--and have formed themselves into a defined class system, disrupted now by drug trafficking.
Beatrice is a woman who adheres to rigid personal standards about personal space. Then something happens that challenges her, forcing her to deal with that rigidity.
I would have given this five stars except for one factor. I become annoyed with this new way of writing novels that seems to be--unfortunately--in vogue now, almost as though the novelist is now expected to write as though the novel is a movie script: They are in the living room. They are in the garden.
That aside, the plot is well developed, the characters believable, and the ambiguities life offers ones with which this reader easily connects.
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