Every House needs a Balcony--Book Review

Braiding together past and present, Every House Needs a Balcony tells the story of a young Jewish girl—a child of Romanian immigrants—who lives with her family in the poverty-stricken heart of 1950s Haifa, Israel. Eight-year-old Rina, her older sister, and their parents inhabit a cramped apartment with a narrow balcony that becomes an intimate shared stage on which the joys and dramas of the building's daily life are played out. It is also a vantage point from which Rina witnesses the emergence of a strange new country, born from the ashes of World War II. Later, after years of living abroad with her wealthy Spanish husband in Barcelona, Rina, longing for the simple life she has missed, returns to the Haifa of her boisterous youth, a move that soothes her soul but ultimately endangers her marriage.(goodreads.com)

This is an interesting book and try as I might ..I can't finish this book. I can't relate to any one and there are way too many people to keep track of and the chapter titles are different . Yes these are real people and their stories. I did like the stories with family and all the relationships between the past and present. I did finish it but it was a tough book for me to relate to with all these people. Real or fiction.?? I was wondering at times.



Book Review= 3

You Might like this book.. thanks to Harper for the book and this is my Honest Review