";s:4:"text";s:5728:" First-novelist and award-winning poet S†enz (Calendar of Dust, 1991, etc.) Everyone is fooled, including husband Eddie and best friend Elizabeth, though Helen feels great guilt over her lies and her separation from Diego. A beautifully written, complex story that spans the boundaries of race, class, health, and sexuality. it is obvious that this is an early novel of his (his first actually) because his writing is not as refined as in others.
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There's something about his control of language that I really enjoy.
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.
There's something about his control of language that I really enjoy. This actually has a lot of similar characteristics as Let the Great World Spin. by Overall, I liked it. It had deep, dark depth, laughter with tears, and an overall fascinating look at the human condition.
An Alire Sáenz book. Bravo Mr. Saenz for capturing the desert south, the border life of El Paso, and the sweet sorrow of life & death and long lost family members. I just have to see what subject they fall under.
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attempts a big book about race and family, love and death, but fails to rise above melodrama. This is the gentle story of August Kleinman and the tribulations of his life. Great writing but the dialogue between characters felt really forced, too many characters had the same names which was confusing A deep and powerful story filled with sorrow and pain and life and joy.
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Carry Me Like Water. And compassionate. An amazing book, intertwining lives in the most unique and overwhelming way.Yeah.
In addition to being a complex character study, Carry Me Across the Water also ruminates on important issues in everyday life such as work, wealth, and identity. Gorgeously written with so many fully fledged, complicated characters.
I have been trying to read all of Benjamin Alire Saenz's books after loving "Aristotle & Dante..." and this one is the best!
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I am just sorry I didn't reaI have been trying to read all of Benjamin Alire Saenz's books after loving "Aristotle & Dante..." and this one is the best! CARRY ME LIKE WATER.
also stories within stories that eventually connect; another weakness of mine.
The combination of the divinely fantastic and the deeply human was beautifully done.
I wanted to be a part of this wonderful group of people. I simply cannot praise this book enough.
Gosh I never knew the struggle of reading a book I dislike up until now.This book starts with, at least, 5 POVs, which make it difficult to catch up. (Author tour)
This actually has a lot of similar characteristics as Let the Great World Spin.
That being said, this book is by no means my favorite work by Saenz, but it is definitely a good read.“People love a show, especially when freaks are involved.” “People love a show, especially when freaks are involved.” Not as polished as his more recent works, but in other ways so, so much deeper. by HarperCollins Publishers It is about love, forgiveness, acceptance with a little bit of mystic.
Yes, kinda hokey with the body flying stuff and a bit too long and preachy, but damm, i enjoyed it!Storyline was good but became overly ambitious at points. Helen and Eddie Marsh are living the pampered life of a yuppie couple expecting their first child - except that they've made a pact never to reveal anything about their childhood backgrounds.
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I just don't get it.
Inseparable identical twin sisters ditch home together, and then one decides to vanish.The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secrets—first in her lauded debut,
Beginning with Diego, a deaf-mute Mexican-American barely surviving on the border in El Paso, Texas, and progressing to the posh suburbs of San Francisco (where Diego's real sister, "Helen," has long ago abandoned him and her Chicano roots), Carry Me Like Water is an epic and immensely moving … This novel got under my skin, and like life itself, moved me, annoyed me, humbled me, struck me, and changed me. I love this book. So poignant and beautiful. Its my 3rd from this author and again, my only complaint is i wish these characters were real.
still 5 stars though because of the way it gripped my heart and because it's such a love letter to my hometown.The writing could have been a little more...nuanced?
I believe that to be human in this world is to be heartbroken, vulnerable and uncertain.
July 28th 1996 In today’s work-obsessed culture, how can we view Kleinman’s rise to riches, … Wow.
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