5/20/2023 0 Comments Intimations bookA young girl, Mina, has wandered into the forest, basket in hand, in search of mushrooms what she has discovered is a group of young men, aspiring Bolsheviks, full of anti-tsarist fury and a passion for change. What lies beneath the journey of members of the Mendel family from Latvia to Liverpool over a century ago is unclear or, at least, determined by multiple overlapping factors. Her characters are, as ever, mobile not only in a geographical sense, but in the way that their desires and motivations shift and adapt, influenced by memories of the past and intimations of the future. Linda Grant’s ninth novel continues her exploration of how chance, contingency and unintended consequences intersect with history’s larger movements how personal narratives are shaped not merely by what we think of as inescapable forces and events, but by moments of randomness and whimsy. Like seeds on the wind, some will make it to fertile ground and others will find themselves in inhospitable terrain, or buffeted here and there by unpredictable currents, some destructive, some surprisingly helpful. A grain merchant’s family uproot themselves from their life in Riga and are scattered.
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