The Good Sister Chelsea Bolan 9781443442411 Books
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Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction
Just shy of her fifteenth birthday, Gabriela Amador Prieto has been cast out of the family home by her father for tarnishing the family honour. All traces of her are brutally erased, and not even Lucy, Gabi’s older sister and best friend, knows where she is. Furious at her father and desperate to find her sister, Lucy leaves their small town in Baja California, Mexico, and sets out for the capital to track Gabriela down.
Lucy ventures deep into Mexico City’s most dangerous neighbourhoods, coming face to face with the dark underbelly of the city, while back at home her family members—her parents, her brothers, and her devious brother-in-law, Antonio—struggle with their own complicity in Gabi’s fate.
Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, The Good Sister is an urgent, timely, and moving exploration of betrayal and steadfast devotion, and the ways in which our own intolerance can harm what—and who—we love most.
The Good Sister Chelsea Bolan 9781443442411 Books
I really enjoyed this novel. It kept me reading, and was difficult to put down. I wanted to learn more about the culture of Mexico City for my personal interest, and the descriptions of the city life, in the poor districts, were very detailed and well written. A story of love within a family despite terrible failings. As well, a look at the effect of misogyny, and the horrible consequences for women and girls of all ages within this culture.Product details
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The Good Sister Chelsea Bolan 9781443442411 Books Reviews
Raul Amador told himself that everything he did was for the good of his family. After all, didn’t he move them from the poverty, squalor and dangers of Mexico City to the prosperity, peacefulness and safety of Santo Nino?
For Raul Amador family was everything.
Family AND honor.
Or maybe it was honor above everything? – the idea that he could hold his head high while tending to his bar full of tourists or walking through town. Why else would he have been able to banish his 14 year-old daughter, Gabriela, on the basis of rumor? That was the day Lucy lost not only her sister but also her best friend. She thought she couldn’t do anything about at the time but when the after shocks of her father’s decision cracked the foundation of her life and family she set out to find her sister. Through the slums and red-light districts of Mexico City to the “gringolandia” of San Diego she searched everywhere. Would she ever find her sister again? And if she did, could she even begin to ask for forgiveness for doing nothing?
“The Good Sister” is in turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, frightening and comforting, full of suspense and danger and then love and redemption. Ms. Bolan has created a gritty yet wonderful world populated by both truly hate-worthy characters and, while not always traditional, equally truly loving and warm characters. Lucy’s quest to find her sister is believable and I found myself cheering for her whenever something went right and despising those who made her journey more difficult. Ms. Bolan managed to grab hold of my emotions from the first page and not let go. Then I felt her squeezing just a little tighter, if that was even possible, when Gabriela’s whole story was finally revealed at the end of the book. Well done for a debut author!
Told in both the first person for Lucy’s story and third person for the rest worked well for this book. “The Good Sister” explores so many themes relevant today – some politics, male/female double standards, tradition versus more modern norms – the list goes on, yet Ms. Bolan managed to combine them all into central plot that had me anxiously turning pages whenever I could get a few minutes to sit down with the book.
This book made me think of “The Kite Runner” and “The Almond Tree” because it has also stayed with me for a while after turning the last page. It too asks the age-old questions “Can you be good again?” “Can you really go home again”? Since both Lucy and Gabriela took turns breaking and mending my heart as I read, my only dilemma was deciding which of the two sisters the title refers to? Which one is “The Good Sister”?
I have to confess to a case of cover love for this book too. The cover so perfectly captures the Mexican setting and after finishing the book I realize that not one of the small illustrations is wasted. Just looking at the cover brings special parts of this book quickly back to mind.
Definitely a 5-star read for me.
I would like to thank Harper Collins and First Look Books for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I really enjoyed this novel. It kept me reading, and was difficult to put down. I wanted to learn more about the culture of Mexico City for my personal interest, and the descriptions of the city life, in the poor districts, were very detailed and well written. A story of love within a family despite terrible failings. As well, a look at the effect of misogyny, and the horrible consequences for women and girls of all ages within this culture.
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