It's 9:19 to Sunday, August 23, 2015 and I am always here to write.
Today I decided to review a book that has been the backbone of my life as a teenager; it was in fact accompanied by all the years of high school (or secondary). The story in question is The other story of us by Jennifer Weiner, published by Piemme in 2010. It's therefore a novel fairly new, and suitable mostly to reading of adults or children, as the story is quite complicated to follow.
The novel is a genre born in antiquity even in the eleventh century; the narratives of that time, who told rework chivalry, had already called roman, originally from Old French romans, romant and romanz, which in turn derives dall'avverbio Vulgar Latin romanice loqui (talk in Roman).
After this series of history, I present the author.
Jennifer Weiner lives in Philadelphia. After studying at Princeton University he began his career as a journalist. Her first novel, Good in bed, it's quickly became an international bestseller which probably will become a television series. Piemme has also published To bed with Maggie, Bed three squares, Goodnight Baby, Tales from bed and Some girls, but The other story of us was immediately book N. 1 on the New York Times.
Plot:
It was the summer of 1983 in Pleasant Ridge (Chicago); Valerie and Addie, who lived opposite one another, were took a few minutes to become inseparable.
More than twenty years later, of that bond there is nothing left; Addie, after failing career in New York, returned to Pleasant Ridge without a guy (though he hopes to meet on a dating site) to take care of her sick mother. Valerie, however, working in the city, appears on television and she has how many men she wants when she wants.
Yet, when Val knocked on her door in the middle of the night to ask for help, that Addie resentment felt toward him disappear, and for both it's time to throw the past behind them and rebuild their relationship.
"We will be together forever."
Reading here and there other reviews of this story, I realized that books are something extremely subjective; there are those who can say he did not like at all and those who will say that he worshiped, then that is my case. Therefore I tell you my impressions regardless of what I read online, but based only on the book and on the facts that we are told.
Personally I think it's a book to read quietly, specially the first time; who read it quickly and then starts writing negative reviews just shows not to have understood a damn. I say first of all that I too, at first, I could not read it, I was stuck pretty much after the second chapter because I was bored. But that was when I was in elementary school and I was not able to follow the story or to deal with a more complex language as a Geronimo Stilton. The fact is that a few years later I tried again to re-read it and it was the time I fell in love with this book. And it is a love that continues from that day. I think I read at least nine or ten times.
I say already that the story has my surprise, for the simple reason that begins in the present and then makes the time jumps (no flashbacks) in the past, so they are told two stories at the same time and it was perhaps too confusing me years ago. But the fact that the stories are told from the perspective of a little girl of eight, nine years, I loved it, because it is a technique which is not found very often.
The story is narrated in the first person by a narrator dynamic: before Dan Swansea, then Adelaide Downs, the police chief Jordan Novick and so on, and everyone is aware only of his "slice" of history, it is not omniscient narrators (focusing zero).
It states that the story is not the beginning so you can guess how you can not guess the ending, since during the narration involved many twists and home runs that mislead the reader to the final solution.
For those who are still skeptical or undecided I add that this is not the usual love story, but, rather, that the story gives the moral that love can not be just something related to man-woman, but can also be something that can be built between friends, in a different context.
It's the story of how a person, if wants, can change.
Maryanna (:
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