I finished reading The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean and I thought mostly good thoughts. The book's main character is Marina, a woman suffering from Alzheimers. Throughout the book Marina flashes back to her experiences in Leningrad during World War II. The majority of these experiences are, imagine, pretty bad. Starving people, extreme cold, constant Nazi bombing etc etc. The present story line follows Marina's daughtercoming to terms with the extent of her mother's illness while attending a family wedding. This subject matter could become pretty trite or saccharine. I think Dean did a good job of keeping it from becoming a made for tv movie kind of book.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Madonnas Of Leningrad
I finished reading The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean and I thought mostly good thoughts. The book's main character is Marina, a woman suffering from Alzheimers. Throughout the book Marina flashes back to her experiences in Leningrad during World War II. The majority of these experiences are, imagine, pretty bad. Starving people, extreme cold, constant Nazi bombing etc etc. The present story line follows Marina's daughtercoming to terms with the extent of her mother's illness while attending a family wedding. This subject matter could become pretty trite or saccharine. I think Dean did a good job of keeping it from becoming a made for tv movie kind of book.
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