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Michael Rosen's seven-year-old son Ripton one day decided to join a pick-up game of baseball with some older kids in the park. At the end of the game Ripton asked his new friends if they wanted to come back to his house for snacks and Nintendo. Over time, five of the boys -- all black and Hispanic, from the impoverished neighborhood across the park -- became a fixture in the Rosens' home and eventually started referring to Michael and his wife Leslie as their parents. The boys began to see the Rosens as more than just an arcade of middle-class creature comforts; the Rosens began to learn the full stories of the boys' fractured lives. Soon Michael and Leslie decided that their responsibility, like that of parents everywhere, was to help all their boys get a start in life. So began a turbulent learning experience all round, beautifully and movingly depicted in What Else But Home. It's a quest to escape the previously inevitable, a test of the resilience of a newly assembled family, a love story unlike any other, and a celebration of the fact that, whatever our differences, baseball and commitment can help us bridge them. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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That being said, I return to the fact of the matter that the book is just not that well written. It didn't move me to tears, though I thought it should've, and was expecting it to. Scenes play out in a jerky manner; dialogue spills all over the place, confusingly and seemingly purposelessly other than being a vague attempt to grasp the boys' vernacular; and admittedly sometimes everyone behaves in abominable ways. I note this here not to criticize their mistakes and poor decisions, for, fiction or nonfiction, it is not the reader's right to question the decisions of the "characters." Poorly written, however, a character may not garner my sympathy, and then I really am just annoyed at the whole lot of them, which happened a lot when I was reading this book.
All in all, this book had good intentions but did not carry them out in the best way it could have. This is one of the rare cases where I'd recommend keeping very adamantly in mind the fact that this is based on a true story. Thinking of the characters, especially the boys, as real people makes the clumsy translation from life to paper more forgivable. ( )