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Title: Go and Come Back by Joan Abelove ISBN: 0-14-130694-7 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book ever!!!!
Comment: I absoulutly loved this book and would reccomend it to anyone who loves to study new cultures. This book gives the reader an idea of how lucky we are to have food, have a very nice home, and live happily. It is like a whole new world that you are learning about. PLEASE READ TO ENJOY A NEW WORLD AND EXPERIENCE!!!
Rating: 4
Summary: Different People, Different Cultures
Comment: Go and Come Back is an odd yet moving novel written by Joan Abelove. The book is very well written, captures the reader almost instantly, and has great character development. In the book, a small Indian village in a Peruvian jungle is host to two strange, white women, coming from New York, named Joanna and Margarita. They are anthropologists coming to the Isabo (the Indian tribe) village to do research. Alicia, an indifferent Isabo girl, thinks the women are "stingy and stupid". But later, when she adopts a non-native baby, she begins to understand the women better, and they start to understand her. Later, the anthropologists have to leave, but by then will Alicia be too close to them to bear it? Find out by reading this wonderful book on how two narrow-minded people can suddenly fit in so easily and be liked so much by a totally different kind of people, who have a totally different culture.
Go and Come Back is a book I highly recommend because of the way the author shows how different cultures can be and how ignorant they can be of each other. For instance, when Joanna and Margarita came to the village, they were doing things horribly wrong according to Alicia's customs, such as not sharing all their food to every single person in the village immediately. It is very interesting to see the different cultures mix, and it's even funny! Another reason why this is a good book is because of the character development. Go and Come Back is a 1st person narrative novel "told" by Alicia herself. With any 1st person book (especially this one), it is very easy to see the personalities of the characters when the main character tells the story. You get to know Alicia very well throughout the story, and you can almost feel her own feelings. Those are a few of the reasons why I recommend this book.
One reason why someone might not want to read it was because it can be unclear sometimes. During the story, the author makes some points that are unclear. The reader would know there is a point, but he/she wouldn't know what it is. The metaphors are hard to catch too. Sometimes the reader can't understand what the author is even talking about, but only sometimes. Don't let that stop you, though, from reading this wonderful book, because everyone and everything has some flaws (and that's even one of the points made in the book).
Rating: 1
Summary: This book wuz sorry
Comment: I think this book was horrible it didnt make any sense to me I thought the people from Peru were greedy and not thankful for anything they recieved form the anthropologists I think they just wanted them to stay in the in their area because they thought that they would bring them gifts and bow down to them just because they were from the states. I thought these people were disguisting and sick how can you have a husband and still have bofriends the only time that I felt any remorse for these people is when Cami died....... I think this book is not for readers that are interested in fictional stories.
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Title: Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus by Carolina Maria De Jesus, C. M. DeJesus, Carolina Maria de Jesus ISBN: 0451627318 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: August, 1983 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier ISBN: 0440940605 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Talking about People: Readings in Cultural Anthropology by William A. Haviland, Robert J. Gordon, Luis Antonio Vivanco ISBN: 0767405137 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $36.60 |
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Title: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson ISBN: 0689849222 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli ISBN: 0375813748 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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