El amor y otros imposibles Book

The writing here is unusually strong. I didn't expect to like the story as much as I did. The characterization is outstanding, and when the narrative voice really fits, ring true. Because of point of view, the secondary characters work unusually well. As the reader, you're right with the main character's epiphanies about the others, which worked for me. Even though I haven't been to Central Park, as a metaphor for relationships, whoa.

This would be an interesting book to do for book club, if only ;)

A couple great lines:
"I have fallen in love with him, not with the made hysterical rush of instantaneous, spontaneous passion I felt for his father, but slowly, jolting and creaking along, like a three wheeled cart on a dirt road. I did not tumble down a precipice into this love, I climbed up the side of a rocky crag of Manhattan schist, my fingernails breaking against the rock, my knees scraped and torn, spread-eagled as I searched for toe-holds and fingerholds."

"This love was so hard to recognize, but I have finally been able to to see it for what it is--grace. Grace is when something is more beautiful than we deserve, more elegant and lovely than it should be."

"The gorgeousness of life comes in accidental beauty; it comes in inexplicable grace. Grace, like when a child brings to your life unplanned magic."

If you read it, tell me what you think ;)