![]() ![]() ![]() When I started reading The Road Home, I was afraid it was going to be a lot of unpleasant characters and painfully awkward situations. ![]() Meanwhile he has begun to hear rumors about the fate of his hometown. He makes friends with his landlord, with a fellow emigrant from his country, with one of the sous-chefs at his restaurant. Though at first he can’t get enough money together to cover his lodgings, he pretty soon gets a job as a dishwasher in a posh restaurant in London. Lev is leaving his home in Eastern Europe to seek work in England, to get a job that will pay enough for him to send money back to his mother and daughter. Maybe very gradually, like maybe I would send y’all two of her books every year on your birthdays, until at last you all owned everything she’d ever written. If I could buy all of you the complete works of Diana Wynne Jones and send it to you by tomorrow’s post, I would do it. Fiona’s note said “It did cross my mind briefly to buy you Rose Tremain’s whole works”, and y’all, I have to say I am in great sympathy with this position. The Road Home was a gift from the lovely Fiona of The Book Coop. How long it took me to figure out that the reason I didn’t know what country the protagonist was from was that the country the protagonist was from was never named and may quite well have been intended to be fictional: Two-thirds. ![]()
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