American Tango eBook Jennifer Vandever
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Rosalind Plumley needs something. She's a thirtysomething aspiring artist in Portland, Oregon whose sole output consists of decorative paintings of hummingbirds for the upscale children's boutique where she works. She’s coping with her marriage to a blocked writer more interested in smoking pot than writing his screenplay about Stalin's pursuit of an ape-man race while her eccentric family (the daughters are all named after Shakespearean heroines) threatens to consume what little sanity she has left.
When she hits on the romantic idea that moving to Buenos Aires will restore passion and purpose to her life she has little idea just what she's getting herself into. A tango class leads her on an unexpected journey as she discovers the surprising path of her own desires and a new understanding of her family’s complicated history. AMERICAN TANGOO is a novel about men and women, love and loss, grief and healing, erotic awakening and, of course, the tango.
American Tango eBook Jennifer Vandever
Jennifer Vandever's The Bronte Project made me an enthusiastic fan of her extraordinary gift for using the English language as a tapestry of intricate images within which her narrative progresses. She is brilliant in her comic sketches, makes one laugh out loud. American Tango is no less rich in language but it's more introspective in the complex lives of her Portlandia family, lovers and friends. Learning to Tango for Rosalind, the narrator, strikes me as a metaphor for her struggles to bring order into her very complex emotional and cultural life. Again, for me, it's her command of language that nourishes me and makes me want to have a long meal with her just to hear her speak--about anything. Finally, I think there's a very successful screenplay and movie in this novel.Product details
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American Tango eBook Jennifer Vandever Reviews
Sometimes all one can handle is the love of a dog! You should read this book! It’s about love, family, desire. Portland in the 80s. Feels like a beach read, but you walk away with more. Loved this book!
I found this book thought provoking but sad because of the poor choices that each character made in order to cope with a dysfunctional family. The tango excerpts were accurate but it was really a very small part of the story.
Profound. Moving. One woman's journey through the challenges of her (mainly) dysfunctional family and failing marriage. Written with grace -- this is a book I wish I had the talent to write.
So intelligent. Such delicious dysfunction. I enjoyed this book so much that I forced myself to read slower and slower, just to make it last as long as possible. A gentle blend of reality and quirkiness in the characters/plot at the beginning make the book immediately accessible and interesting. Then, unique threads of complexity are woven into the story so deftly that the richness of the story grows in surprising and unpretentious ways. I love when a writer can capture the pain of struggling relationships in such a way that I'm touched one moment, laughing the next, and then even occasionally embarrassed by seeing myself reflected in the characters' awkward missteps. All that alone would've been satisfying enough, but there are times when Vandever effortlessly dips into moments of depth and poetry that take my breath away you know, when a writer captures something you didn't even know could be put into words, when feeling and introspection seem to blossom into something .... more. I wanted to hang out with the characters! -- sometimes to hug them, sometimes to smack 'em! And I also kinda wanna learn to Tango now.
Rosalind wants to learn the tango then go to Argentina to live and perfect her dancing while hoping it will get her and Cal, her husband, out of their ruts. Cal thinks a dog they hit is his brother as he suffers and deals with his depression. Rosalind learns the tango but their lives, and the lives of others in their family, are changed.
I liked these characters. Neither is happy but each tries to find a way to find happiness. Her family is very much a part of their lives and we see Rosalind's family through her eyes. Not always on their best behavior. Truths are found through the writing. I enjoyed the writing. There was more than the surface. There is a deepness and richness in the language and the truths contained in it. This book resonated with me, maybe because I love to watch people dancing the tango or because of the truths in it.
A book set in Portland, written by a true native. That was my first big warm happy about this book. I have read other books set in my fair city where it is unrecognizable to me. But the story, oh boy! Rosalind was a woman easy to identify with. She thought her life would go one direction and instead she feels stagnant. Problems with her husband, a job that she never imagined she'd be stuck in, a family with secrets and long standing hurts. These people all felt very real, at times almost too much so. Beautifully written, engaging story...and now I want to learn to tango.
Listen, this is brilliant stuff. Jennifer had me with her first novel, The Bronte Project, but American Tango takes things to another level. This book is charming, sad, hopeful, poignant and touching. I don't know where Vandever gets her powers of observation, but they equal the best of what I've read anywhere. Her characters are unforgettable--layered and complicated and true. She has an amazing ear for dialogue and, despite a spiraling series of dramatic events, her comedy resounds. I've dog-eared at least twenty pages throughout the book - pages I intend to read over and over again for their beauty and originality. Read this, please. You won't be disappointed.
Jennifer Vandever's The Bronte Project made me an enthusiastic fan of her extraordinary gift for using the English language as a tapestry of intricate images within which her narrative progresses. She is brilliant in her comic sketches, makes one laugh out loud. American Tango is no less rich in language but it's more introspective in the complex lives of her Portlandia family, lovers and friends. Learning to Tango for Rosalind, the narrator, strikes me as a metaphor for her struggles to bring order into her very complex emotional and cultural life. Again, for me, it's her command of language that nourishes me and makes me want to have a long meal with her just to hear her speak--about anything. Finally, I think there's a very successful screenplay and movie in this novel.
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