Book description
The internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Forty Rooms, which outshines even that prizewinning novel.
Totally original in conception and magnificently executed, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and ultimately emotionally devastating. Olga Grushin is dealing with issues of women’s identity, of…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Forty Rooms as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A memoir/fiction that follows a woman through each of her life’s stages, from child to passionate poet to émigré to housewife and mother. Along the way, a distinct room serves as the frame for each experience, as well as a reminder of the complexity and nuance in even the most seemingly ordinary middle-class life. (I also loved this Russian-American writer’s earlier book, The Line.)
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