Friday, July 08, 2005

2005 book 87

eva hoffman's the secret
hoffman is probably best known for her memoir of moving to canada from poland in the 50s with her parents, who were Holocaust survivors. she's written several other books, apparently, but this is her first novel. it's pretty good--mainly about the search for identity, only with a sci-fi twist: it takes place in the near future (the 2020s) and its protagonist grows up with the feeling that there's something not quite right about herself. as she uncovers her mother's secret, she tries to figure out what it means for her identity. the plot gets a little bit weaker toward the end, especially as some of the futuristic touches begin to ring false, but it's not a terrible book or anything. i don't really have much else to say about it, i guess!

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