Etta and Otto and Russell and James

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411 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2015

ISBN:
978-1-4104-7707-1
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OCLC Number:
897825847

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Otto, the letter began, I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. Don't worry, I've left you the truck. I can walk. I will try to remember to come back. Yours (always), Etta. Otto finds his 83-year-old wife's note in their kitchen in Saskatchewan, 3,200 kilometers from the ocean. But he understands. He was there once. Now Otto struggles with his demons of war while their friend Russell pursues Etta. And James -- you'll have to meet him on the page.

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reviewed Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper

A fever dream?

This book wasn't at all but I expected and I'm not even really sure I know what happened? It was definitely more on the literary and than I expected it to be. I didn't think that it was jump between different periods of time either or people. Good thing I didn't go in with expectations, because none of them would have been met.

Yet I still cried at the end, so I assume that the hidden chambers of my mind have a better idea about what was going on than my more logical and present mind.

I think I'll have to read this again someday. Would recommend.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Large type books
  • Older women
  • Friendship
  • Memory