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January 16, 2023 admin admin Fiction

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High Spirits Book Review

“High Spirits ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. High Spirits is a collection of 11 interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez. It is a book centered on one extended family—the Beléns—across multiple generations. It is set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa—and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights too. It is told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical—and its stories explore machismo, mental health, family, and identity. But most of all, High Spirits represents the first book from Camille Gomera-Tavarez, who takes her place as one of the most extraordinary new voices to emerge in years.

Brief Summary High Spirits by Camille Gomera-Tavarez

I picked this up at a bookstore not knowing what I was in for/never having heard of the author. I am glad that I did! I might not be the target demographic for this book (it says it is YA, I am middle aged) but I really enjoyed it. I don’t want to give anything away about the content, but I really enjoyed the way the book was structured, weaving in different stories about one extended family and their relationships with each other. I think the author did a great job of taking a classic style (family story with some magical realism thrown in) and adapting it to a more modern story and setting. The story moves very quickly and I enjoyed it throughout. There is some Spanish thrown in, but I think that even someone who does not speak any Spanish would be able to figure out what is going on by context clues and could definitely still enjoy the book. It said on the back that this is the author’s first book and I hope that she writes more – I look forward to reading them.