A beautiful creation. I will hang on to this book and pick it up to re-read beautiful sections that unfold like poetry. I love Lively's writing and have read "How it All Began" and "Oleander, Jacaranda" (autobiography of her childhood in Egypt). I have a few of my favorite books in a cubby-hole in our bed's headboard and this book will go there along with Nabokov's "Speak, Memory", the William Trevor short stories, Lampedusa's "The Leopard."
"Moon Tiger" roams through the life and mind of a woman who has been intelligent and beautiful. Has she been kind? Has she been as wise as she imagines? It is not all simply a life of the mind. Lively weaves into the narrative an eroticism that illuminates everything.
