I trotted home with one book from ALA Midwinter. I was so excited to see Beth Kephart's upcoming Going Over being released from Chronicle. I love Beth. I love Chronicle. That's enough for me.
As always, the language is gorgeous, the love full of meaning, and the plot tight and tense.
"We live with ghosts. We live with thugs, dodgers, punkers, needle ladies, pork knuckle. We live where there's no place else to go."
Set in a 1983, within a divided Berlin, two teens in love are separated by the wall. The work is told in both their voices so that the reader can sit in the East and the West. An unexpected layer adds the plight of the immigrants of Kreuzberg and the further oppression of Turkish women.
Aside from the language, the imagery, and the sensory input, I marveled at the pacing. Beth creates these moments of stall, rewind, and then a lurch forward, over and over. As the story progresses, the pauses shorten and the reader is launched farther and farther. That so perfectly mimics the passing of time for the characters themselves, caught on either side of the wall. Simply brilliant.
Don't miss this important novel. There's a great giveaway over at Goodreads right now. Click here and leap over! Congrats, Beth, and bravo, Chronicle!
Me, I'm off to read: Nest. Flight. Sky. Beth's new memoir!
Going Over, starred review from Booklist
by Beth Kephart
Chronicle Books, 2014
5 comments:
So incredibly beautiful!! Thank you so much, L.A.G., whose own book I am beyond eager to read!
Great first impressions...as if I were not excited enough for Going Over
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