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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a novel that explores life after tragedy and the enduring spirit of love. | Learn more
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History, nostalgia, and teenage confusion
I received a digital advance copy of Swift River by Essie J. Chambers via NetGalley. Swift River is scheduled for release on June 4, 2024.Swift River follows Diamond through the summer of 1987. She is learning to drive in secret, rebelling against her mother’s insistence on hitchhiking everywhere they go. Through this summer, Diamond’s mother is working to get her missing Pop declared legally dead to save their home and future. This quest results in relatives from Pop’s side of the family contacting Diamond and sharing pieces of their family’s past.Diamond is the strength of this novel. She is a mess. She is overweight, mixed race in an all-white town, and plagued by rumors that her dad isn’t really dead, just moved to the next town over to escape her and her mother. She has no confidence, and no understanding of herself and the world she lives in. Through this novel, we see her start to find herself as she takes actions different from those her mother dictates and begins to explore her family’s past.Chambers has also nailed the setting of this novel, particularly the time period. The 80s ooze out of the pages, present in every scene in the fictive present. Letters from Diamond’s ancestors give us a different view, taking us back in time in a way that provides both contrast and reinforces the issues in the current story. It did take me almost the entire novel to sort out who was writing the letters, as we have two different letter writers from two different points in time. This was probably more a me issue than an issue with the narrative, however.It is worth noting that the end of this novel is very open. Many of the threads followed throughout the story are not resolved in the end. While this worked for me, and allowed me to imagine how Diamond moved forward into her life, it might not work for a reader who wants to feel that all of the story lines have been resolved by the end of a novel.Overall, Swift River swirls together history, nostalgia, and teenage confusion to create a lovely story of a girl trying to figure out who she is.
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Swift River follows Diamond through the summer of 1987. She is learning to drive in secret, rebelling against her mother’s insistence on hitchhiking everywhere they go. Through this summer, Diamond’s mother is working to get her missing Pop declared legally dead to save their home and future. This quest results in relatives from Pop’s side of the family contacting Diamond and sharing pieces of their family’s past.
Diamond is the strength of this novel. She is a mess. She is overweight, mixed race in an all-white town, and plagued by rumors that her dad isn’t really dead, just moved to the next town over to escape her and her mother. She has no confidence, and no understanding of herself and the world she lives in. Through this novel, we see her start to find herself as she takes actions different from those her mother dictates and begins to explore her family’s past.
Chambers has also nailed the setting of this novel, particularly the time period. The 80s ooze out of the pages, present in every scene in the fictive present. Letters from Diamond’s ancestors give us a different view, taking us back in time in a way that provides both contrast and reinforces the issues in the current story. It did take me almost the entire novel to sort out who was writing the letters, as we have two different letter writers from two different points in time. This was probably more a me issue than an issue with the narrative, however.
It is worth noting that the end of this novel is very open. Many of the threads followed throughout the story are not resolved in the end. While this worked for me, and allowed me to imagine how Diamond moved forward into her life, it might not work for a reader who wants to feel that all of the story lines have been resolved by the end of a novel.
Overall, Swift River swirls together history, nostalgia, and teenage confusion to create a lovely story of a girl trying to figure out who she is.
History, nostalgia, and teenage confusion
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2024
I received a digital advance copy of Swift River by Essie J. Chambers via NetGalley. Swift River is scheduled for release on June 4, 2024.Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2024
Swift River follows Diamond through the summer of 1987. She is learning to drive in secret, rebelling against her mother’s insistence on hitchhiking everywhere they go. Through this summer, Diamond’s mother is working to get her missing Pop declared legally dead to save their home and future. This quest results in relatives from Pop’s side of the family contacting Diamond and sharing pieces of their family’s past.
Diamond is the strength of this novel. She is a mess. She is overweight, mixed race in an all-white town, and plagued by rumors that her dad isn’t really dead, just moved to the next town over to escape her and her mother. She has no confidence, and no understanding of herself and the world she lives in. Through this novel, we see her start to find herself as she takes actions different from those her mother dictates and begins to explore her family’s past.
Chambers has also nailed the setting of this novel, particularly the time period. The 80s ooze out of the pages, present in every scene in the fictive present. Letters from Diamond’s ancestors give us a different view, taking us back in time in a way that provides both contrast and reinforces the issues in the current story. It did take me almost the entire novel to sort out who was writing the letters, as we have two different letter writers from two different points in time. This was probably more a me issue than an issue with the narrative, however.
It is worth noting that the end of this novel is very open. Many of the threads followed throughout the story are not resolved in the end. While this worked for me, and allowed me to imagine how Diamond moved forward into her life, it might not work for a reader who wants to feel that all of the story lines have been resolved by the end of a novel.
Overall, Swift River swirls together history, nostalgia, and teenage confusion to create a lovely story of a girl trying to figure out who she is.
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