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Loading... Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plagueby Geraldine Brooks
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Brooks puts together a number of random anecdotes from a very bad year in the life of a small English and comes up with a whole, the gist of which is: What do you do when the worst of black magic shows up? There's enough variety to argue that she got it right somewhere. ( )Year of Wonders was a very good read. I liked the imagery and the characters. The story was based on a true story of a village who quarantined themselves after an outbreak of plague. Simply looking at how such a tragedy would affect a small, tightly knit community both as a group and as individuals will make for a great book group discussion. I found the ending somewhat disappointing. It wrapped up far too quickly, and rather too neatly as well for my taste. Great plague novel, hope and affirmation in the midst of drear type of thing Based on the true story of Eyam, a small English village that isolated itself to stop the spread of bubonic plague, Brooks tells her story through Anna Frith, a young woman who loses her own family to the sickness. An admirer of the local minister, Anna loves and helps his wife, Elinor - and envies her for what she sees as an ideal marriage. As Anna spends more time with the minister and his wife, the scales fall from her eyes, and she realizes that things are not always as they seem. Some of the characters and events are a bit much, but Brooks' writing is lyrical and her character, Anna, shows growth and maturity. It's a very well-written book, but it broke my heart and I don't like the ending. It's rushed compared to the rest of the book, and it was just dissatisfying for me. no reviews | add a review
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