The blinding love that it is possible to feel for children not our own is the thread that weaves throughout The Children’s House. Unmoored and devastated, Constance and Gabriel quickly come to depend on Marina and her bond with the little boy intensifies. Outside the house one day Marina encounters Constance, a young refugee from Rwanda, and her toddler, Gabriel. I have done nothing for a few days but bury myself inside this exquisite novel. For me this book will go to almost the top of my all time favourite reading list. As Christmas nears, her tight-knit, loving family, along with Constance and Gabriel, join Marina in her mother's former home, with a startling consequence, an act that will transform all of their lives forever.Īlice Nelson skilfully weaves together these shared stories about the terrible things humans are capable of into a beautifully told, hope-filled novel exploring the profound consolations that we can find in each other.Įvery once in a while a novel comes along that leaves the reader speechless. When Marina learns some disturbing news about her long-disappeared mother, Gizela, she leaves New York in search of the loose ends of her life. The pure, blinding love that it is possible to feel for children not our own is the thread that weaves through The Children's House. Unmoored and devastated, Constance and Gabriel quickly come to depend on Marina, and her bond with the little boy intensifies. The family moves to a brownstone in Harlem, formerly a convent inhabited by elderly nuns. They meet years later at a university in California, when Jacob is a successful psychiatrist with a young son, Ben, from a disastrous marriage. Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each born on a kibbutz in Israel. A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them.
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