Friday, June 09, 2006

A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka


Two feuding sisters try to put aside their differences as they attempt to extricate their émigré father from his unfortunate marriage to the gold-digging (and immigration-dodging) Valentina. There was the promise of many family skeletons tumbling out of the closet, but this didn't deliver in quite the way I'd expected. An entertaining tale, none-the-less. My sympathies definitely lay with the sisters - caught between exasperation at an old man's foolishness and feeling so sorry for him because of the situation his idiocy landed him in. Valentina was by far the best character - worth reading this book for her alone!

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