Before reading The Sandcastle Girls I knew almost nothing about the massacre that took place almost unnoticed by the rest of the world in Armenian in 1915. Bohjalian tells the story by alternating between a contemporary (female) narrator and her grandmother as a young woman, which gets a bit con...
"The Light in the Ruins" was my first experience reading Chris Bohjalian. I don't normally read historical fiction or murder mysteries, and I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the writing. Bohjalian's evocative sentences immersed me in his fictional Italy and I found the plot fairly in...
While the ratings at beginning of this book said edge of your seat chilling horror book, I was quite disappointed. While the novel itself was consistent, and came together rather well, the ending was very poor. I found the plot to be very predictable, and was not on the edge of my seat can't put ...
Absolutely amazing. I had forgotten how incredible an author Chris Bohjalian is. It is gorgeous, and tragic, and feminist, and deeply felt.Review:"Superb. . . .Fans of Bohjalian's 11 other novels (including Midwives) know to expect the unexpected and, thanks to his creativity and cunning, readers...
I wrote this review below, and then before posting it, I realized how negative it sounds, so please let me start this by saying: The book was a solid 4-star book, one that I will think about long after I turned the last page....a book with a huge WOW factor.....then let the remainder of the revi...
No matter how many Chris Bohjalian books I read, he always seems to have more. Like his most famous book, Midwives, this one concerns a single tragic incident (here the shooting of a father by his own daughter), and then builds a story around the question of intent (did the daughter shoot her fa...
I’ve found so much to discuss from this book and so let me start with a general review so that I can make the remainder a huge spoiler alert....This is the third Chris Bohjalian Book I’ve read and while I’ve enjoyed the other two, this one is my favourite. He’s taken a subject that is sensitive a...
2.5 stars. This book had enough momentum to keep me going to the end...and then I just felt dissatisfied. It felt kind of patchworked to me, and toward the end I realized WHY the author made it patchwork....and then felt like the ending was way to predictable.Patch #1 could have been a stand alon...
Chris Bohjalian and his wife moved from New York City to Lincoln, Vermont, population 975, in 1986, and he wrote a weekly column for the Burlington Free Press from 1992 to 2004. This book compiles some of these columns and longer feature pieces he wrote for the Boston Globe. I have a special in...
"The Law of Similars" is an astonishing novel about the hardships Leland Fowler faces when he loses his wife in a car crash, leaving him with grief and his young daughter. The most pleasurable aspect of this book is definitely the character development of Leland. Chris Bohjalian develops Lelan...