What do you get when you put four very different women together in a conversational Spanish class? In The Foreign Language of Friends, by Nadine Galinsky Feldman, you get a journey into friendship and growth.
Each of the women are so different from each other as to be opposites, yet it is in their oppositeness that they're able to help each other in their times of need. Each woman faces a crisis and is only able to pull through it with the help of her new friends. Each person's crisis is like notes in a musical score--each contrasting with the other, yet working together as a beautiful piece of art.
The themes of the novel are varied, but also weave together nicely. They involve divorce, death, work, and loneliness. The one constant in all of the women's lives is loneliness--each in her own way is isolated and friendless. Finding themselves in their new, unlikely, friendship speaks volumes about who they are, about who we can all become.
The Foreign Language of Friends is told in a language that is polished and clear, leaving no doubt about the meaning of friendship.
The book is available at Amazon.com.
3 comments:
This is a beautiful review, Richard! "Each person's crisis is like notes in a musical score--each contrasting with the other, yet working together as a beautiful piece of art." This stunning sentence alone makes me want to read this book. And the themes are also intriguing.
Ann Best, Author of In the Mirror & Other Memoirs
WOW! beautiful review.
Sounds like a really interesting book.
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