14 Oct 2025

The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett

The main subject of this book is family relationships. The author explores this by envisaging about the most complex family one could imagine. A family that includes homosexuality, domestic abuse, secrets, estrangement, jealousy and regrets. It is interesting to see how someone (Sabine), who has lived a lot of her life - all her adulthood anyway - in one place (California) responds when plunged into the midst of a family in a very different place (Nebraska).
I enjoyed the nuences and complexities of the story, but was slightly unfulfilled by the ending, which could be interpreted in a number of ways - but perhaps that is just what life is like. 

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