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really liked Julia Glass's first two novels the characters touched me, the storylines were engaging, However, something went terribly awry with this book, It's like Julia was kidnapped by Jodi Picoult, spoonfed some kind of noxious characterwithering pablum, and then released to finish up this book while still in some state of disorientation.


This is to say, "I See You Everywhere" was churning along OK until one horrible twist in the storyline.
You've had this happen, I'm sure, You're reading along, and then whamo! The author pulls a literary move on you that resembles something Hulk Hogan might have executed in his heyday with the World Wrestling Federation.
Once you pull the folding chair off your face, and you pull yourself up by the ropes on the ringside, you

turn back to the author and mutter, "That's a load of hooey.
That character would have never done that, You're jacking with me. "

I suggest that if you read this book, you should have the ice pack ready once the plot twist plummets into the ring.
Try to keep the swelling down, and hopefully the whole episode won't leave a permanent mark, I'm willing to go back to Glass one more time, but I'm no glutton for punishment, If her next book has the same ridiculous twist, I'm moving on and not looking back, I read this in two days, I really adore Julia Glass' writing style, It's so smooth and full of beauty, I was surprised to see that the pieces in the book had originally been published as stories in other places, because they feel so cohesive.
The only peeve I have with it, which is why it doesn't getis that the first chapter has these really annoying POV shifts between the two sisters, both are in first person and the name of one of the characters is, bothersomely, Clement.
So it is really, really distracting, But don't let this put you off, The rest of the book is a beautiful account of what it's like to be sisters, This is actually a collection of short stories about two sisters, Each chapter, narrated by first one then the other sister, could stand on its own, which means there is some repetition from chapter to chapter.
I liked it but the short story style put me off a bit, On the other hand, kudos to the author for pulling that off,

Louisa is the older, more uptight sister a failed artist and Clement is the younger free spirit who works in wildlife conservation.
They have a complicated relationship which morphs and develops as the book progresses across their teens, twenties, thirties and forties
The format it intriguing, switching back and forth between two sisters over the years, but it took me a few sections to figure out what was going on.
We get each sister's perspective on a certain point in time, each moment has welldrawn minor characters and usually a strong sense of setting, and Louisa and Clem both manage to be sympathetic and flawed at the same time.
But then we jump forward in time, and we rarely meet those characters again, and things are often left unresolved from one point in time to the next.
It's almost like reading a series of short stories, all about the same characters, or maybe it's more lifelike a person or situation looms large at one point, but then things move on.
It was an interesting choice, in terms of how to tell the story, but I wanted a bit more a bit more connection between the episodes and I would've been more drawn into the book, I think.


The audio version had promise each sister read by a different person, making it easy to tell where you are in the story.
The readings were a bit flat, and the two sisters ended up sounding fairly similar although this could have been due more to similarities in writing style for the two voices.
Not a bad audio version, but not outstanding enough to recommend, Overall, though, a nice piece of fiction if you're looking for a decent novel, One reviewer noted that the chapters of this book seemed like individual short stories that's probably the most positive spin one could put on this book.
The early chapters seemed discontinuous, with the chapters told alternately in the voice of one of the two sisters, Clem and Louisa.
The very first chapter, and a rather boring one, seemed to have little to do with the rest of the book.
What was all that about the sisters' family tree, the greataunts, GreatAunt Lucy and her coveted cameo After a couple chapters, this storyline was not mentioned again until the very end, when the author inserted a mention of Great Aunt Lucy that had no effect on the story ending.


Each chapter seemed like a nonsequitir from the preceding one, The sisters were always in a different place, in a different situation, with different love interests that hadn't flowed from the previous chapter.
At the beginning of each chapter, I'd have to say 'huh' Did I miss something Was I supposed to know that The author took her time setting it all straight.
It seemed to me the author had little regard for the reader's sense of following a story,

About halfway through the book, the chapters were spaced closer together in time, and thence began a storyline I could follow more easily.
although in chapter "Coat of Many Colors" the first page talks about a 'machine' Louisa is having a 'relationship' with.
Several pages later, it turns out oh, she's undergoing radiation treatments, Of course, no previous mention of an illness this was all to come later, And another frustrating chapter beginning earlier: Clem has amnesia and is in the hospital a mysterious stranger comes into her room with roses.
Clem has no idea who he is neither does the reader, And the explanation is interrupted by side comments on the doctor, Clem's mother's visit, etc, Plus the mystery is made more unclear to the reader, when the stranger is identified as Barney, although his real name is Larney.
I wondered typos There was really no excuse for all this befuddlement on the reader's part,

I do admit to reading to the end, although skimming many paragraphs that seemed extraneous, totally unnecessary.
I'm still not sure what this story was all "about, " The writer could have had several theme in mind, I think this book could have done better with more editing, Julia Glass new book is a beautiful balance of accessibility and artistry,

This skillful combination of readability and craft is a welcome turn from the author who won the National Book Award with her intricate first novel Three Junes.
Her second novel, sitelinkThe Whole World Over, shot for a wider audience only to feel mired in formulaic soap opera mediocrity.


So I See You Everywhere is quite an achievement on so many levels, First of all, most “popular” and “accessible” works achieve these labels because they are also just plain and simplistic and often cliché.
Their “accessibility” grabs their audiences by dealing in platitudes and bland commonalities,

I See You Everywhere is about siblings sisters, their shared love and hate, The combination of sibling rivalry and familial connection is intimate and familiar, Yet Glass approach is superbly artistic and unique, The firstperson narration alternates between each woman, And yet there is an overall arca rich historyfor both women Glass achieves this by encapsulating a story in each of the books chapters.


The first storythetale of a very old maiden aunts funeralis told by each sister taking turns.
The younger, fiery and passionate sister has spent her summer caring for the ancient old lady, The more staid sister only comes in late to pay her respects and obtain a small piece of the aunts jewelry she has always coveted.
In the first few pages, we believe the older sister is unduly materialistic, only to come to understand later what that piece of jewelry means to her, especially in relation to her often reckless and yet more beloved younger sister.


The rest of the stories rotate between these two sisters viewpoints, The overall effect is a prismatic picture of their adult lives with and without each other, And even though the themes of family love and conflict are common, Glass exposes the questions and metaphors so deftly in each chaptereach talethat the sum of the book is complex and fascinating.
And because each chapter is its own story, I See You Everywhere is extremely easy for a reader to delve into in fact, you might find the book goes from being a comprehensible and manageable read to being an addictive one.


This brings me to the strongest quality of I See You Everywhere, Anyone who knows Glass biography knows she is writing from a distinctly personal perspective here, This novel so easily and skillfully plumbs Glass own experience for what she and her own sister have been through together, we would expect denser, less clean writing.
Wed expect more pain, a lack of comprehension and a tendency to wallow in darkness, depression and ugliness, And yet, Glass writes of their tumultuous relationship with a transparent ease that flows from page to page,

Which brings me to the HUGE turning points of the book: some readers unfamiliar with Glass might assume that four chapters from the end, the author pulls a fast one on her audience, creating two certain massive plot twists.
These events are so surprising and shocking its easy to believe that Glass is going for a dramatic but low blow, whipping up melodramatic chaos for effect.
And yet, Glass is writing pretty close to the bone here these things really did happen to the author.


Some audiences become frustrated because the novels significant events dont come with easy explanations, I promise you, if youve ever been through anything like what Glass has been through and I have, you know that there really are no pat explanations.


In fact, its that final qualityone of deep understanding and even comfort in the midst of devastationthat makes I See You Everywhere so achingly beautiful.

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