Reviews for The blue bedspread

The average rating for The blue bedspread based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-03-21 00:00:00 Everett Dague disturbing and downright wrong at times. very upsetting but a story i will remember for a very long time. it definitely accomplished what the author was trying to achieve. when i finished this book - i sat shell shocked for twenty minutes trying to figure out why i had read the entire book but unable to get it off my mind.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-08-18 00:00:00 Sam Schwabe There is the story line, and then there is the prose style. Both might, at first reading, bring to mind Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Here, though, point of view and tone is subdued. Evasion and narrative elision is maintained throughout The Blue Bedspread, which might leave some readers asking for more (clarification). Unlike The God of Small Things, where the loose ends come together in the end, The Blue Bedspread does not propose a unified tale. In this sense, it is realistic and honest. The "stories" narrated here cannot evoke a coherent whole, a complete fictive universe - for memory, especially that of the narrator, is fleeting. The painful past is best kept forgotten, and yet, the Brother feels a duty to recall as much as he can for the Sister's baby he is addressing. The past, the truth, comes back to him slowly, and is revealed to us gradually, triggered by images, words, sensations, all of which come throughout the duration of a single night, as he remains awake recalling, repeating, evaluating, transcribing. Like the symbol of the blue bedspread, memory has become eroded by time, use, and washing. Yet there exists a persistent nostalgia for the love, hope and comfort enmeshed in the tattered and discolored fabric of the bedspread.