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Title: The History of Love
Review: In The History of Love, Nicole Krauss navigates the theme of loss through the characters Leo, a feisty octogenarian who refuses to become invisible by deliberately making a scene when he is out in public, and Alma, a tenacious teen who devotes her energies to assuaging her mother's loneliness. Leo and Alma use reading as a vehicle to connect them with those who they have lost, and they write in order to bridge the all-encompassing gap that exists between their desolate, loss-punctuated lives and the happiness bestowed by those that they love. In unexpected ways, it is their acts of reading and writing that resolve those losses. Unified by the processes of reading and writing that encircle them and ultimately, bring them closer and closer together until their climactic meeting at its conclusion.Sofia Sheth
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