Vision of Emma Blau

Summary: "Hegi is an old-fashioned storyteller, and her characters are deeply engaging. She keeps a dozen distinct plot lines going at once and manages to give them each equal weight, so the reader never scans ahead through one to find out what will happen in the next....But despite its substantial length, THE VISION OF EMMA BLAU feels like a small novel in many ways....Every member of the Blau family seems to live in his or ...her own individual pod, close to the ones that they love without ever really touching....Unfortunately, it's hard to make a book about isolation feel compelling." [read more]