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Jan B. (Sulphur, OK)
Well written and captivating
I knew by page 5 if the story was as strong as the writing I was possibly reading a bestseller. The boy's feelings and thoughts were so thought provoking I started making notes and highlighting different passages to go back to and think about again.. Edgar and Lucy will be in my mind and heart for a very long time, and on my bookshelf to revisit and read again. It is a lengthy story but I found myself not wanting it to end and as the end drew near, I started rationing out the pages even knowing I had a review to post I stretched it out. This book isn't like anything I've ever read and even though it's not exactly a "feel good" read it will stay with you for a very long time in a good way.
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Marilyn J. (Harvey, ND)
Depth of characters
Edgar Allan Fini, the albino. Conrad. Florence. Lucy. The butcher. Characters so complex and rounded, intriguing and gripping, and why I didn't put want put the book down until I was finished. The last few chapters seemed to rush through to The End though and I longed for a little more detail. The relationships between characters were fascinating and complex: Florence and Edgar, Edgar and Conrad, Lucy and her father, Lucy and the butcher. This coming-of-age novel (and not just Edgar's coming-of-age) is one of the best I've read recently and at the last word, I sighed, wishing it would go on. This is a story of disappointment and grief, courage and loss, and of the resilience of humans and the ability to overcome and triumph. It illustrates just how resilient and irrepressible children are and how they survive to become adults despite the misguided adults around them. This is a book to be read and discussed by book clubs. I want more stories from Victor Lodato.
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Julie G. (West Hartford, CT)
Edgar & Lucy
What a wonderful book. Both uplifting and disturbing, with characters that are at once unrelatable and yet completely human. While the book is about the relationship between a mother and her son, it is also about love, land loss, and mourning and somehow manages to be a feel good book at the same time. It is unlike anything I have read in a long time.
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Beth B. (New Wilmington, PA)
Edgar and Lucy
Sigh. That's the sound of this reader's awe. It's the sound of contentment, the sound of sadness. Contentment and awe at the writer's skill with words and plot, sadness that the final word has been read.
Edgar and Lucy by Victor Caduto is a novel everyone MUST read. A story of loss, of the lost, of the found, of familial love and history, and the indomitable spirit of a woman named Florence. Filled with a cast of characters that we come to know and hold in our hearts, this is a novel that the reader will never forget and will recommend to anyone who will listen to that praise. AMAZING!!
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Vicki R. (York, PA)
Thought-provoking and enjoyable!
"Edgar & Lucy" by Victor Lodato is a wonderful book about love, loss, and reconciliation. Edgar is an eight year old boy who lives with his grandmother, Florence and his mother, Lucy. Florence, who was the nurturing woman in Edgar's life, dies unexpectedly and Edgar and Lucy must learn to love and care for each other in a whole new way. This is a book about growing up and the many ways people change through the hardships and challenges of life. I recommend this book to readers who are looking for a thought-provoking story that can be read in a leisurely way.
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Kenan R. (Liberty, MO)
Edgar and Lucy
Edgar is eight. His grandmother loves him unconditionally, his mother is distant and enigmatic, his father is dead. This story of a little boy navigating life in the face of profound sorrow and dangerous choices is engaging and gripping. Told from the perspectives of several different characters we are able to see all sides of Edgar and Lucy's story and root for them to find themselves and each other. I loved this book and these people, even when they were doing unlike able things.
If only I had gotten it a few weeks later I could have read it on vacation in much less time! Sadly, I would have to put it down to go to work or sleep.
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Lani S. (Narberth, PA)
An award winner...
How many languages can you spell love? I would shout it from the rooftops exclaiming my adoration for this novel about a special little eight year old and his family. I could tell from the very first page that this was a novel that I was going to savor and enjoy. Eight year old Edgar is an unusual albino child born into a "messy" family with complicated love issues. Lodato has created a child with such wonder, imagination, humor and pathos that I wanted to grab him and hold him tightly to my chest. It is a family narrative of love and grief taken to the extreme contexts,but the characters are so fleshed out that one feels as if they know them, although they may find some of them irritating or difficult to understand at first. Lucy, Edgar's mother, is pregnant with him at an early age, and due to her lack of maturity and upbringing, has absolutely no idea how to mother this child. However, her mother in law succeeds where she does not. Other characters enter this fray, and continue to set up obstacles as the young boy ages. My one slight disappointment was in the last few chapters which I thought were rushed and made me feel bereft of the fullness of the novel. However, no spoilers here. Just.read.it.
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