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Okay, this is not a book for men. This is 100% dedicated to women. With that said, I really did enjoy the overly descriptive adjectives the author has truly mastered. She provides the reader with every little detail one can possible imagine. At times, it is a bit overwhelming but sincere.

I did not get caught-up in the different cultural clashes most reviewers have alluded to. I was following the story and very interested in how everything would come together with the past, present and future for Ruth, Nora, and Bettina.

The author does a brilliant job in meshing multiple characters and their interactions from Nazi Germany to present and how the past keeps guiding them on a trip across the US and onto to Germany in an attempt to let the past be fully embraced and accepted, whether it was good or bad.

The story lost me in Book IV, chapter 4. Up until then, the pace was well planned and one could feel the story coming together, but then it disappeared. This is where the descriptions became too overbearing and overshadowed the various stories we were following. The end became very anti-climatic.

As I stated earlier, this a book for readers who love being enmeshed with feelings and descritptions.


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Irretrievably Broken eBook IRMA FRITZ Reviews

I loved this book. The relationships were interesting and evolving; the people were real. Nora's experiences of being in college in the 70's, dealing with race, religion, and family, as well as relationships and discovering who she is, resonated with me. This is not a simple romance and there is no fantasy angle, just real people.
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I am so glad I read this novel. There are a few stories within the story, each as captivating as the next. Irma is a very intelligent writer and has an excellent way with words. This book is very "smart" and descriptive, and gives us a view of common history that we may have never seen from this angle. It may have fared better in 2 novels, as it is quite long. But don't be intimidated, it's chock full of interesting and fun characters that are sure to keep your interest until the very end!
"Irretrievably Broken" sheds new light on the plight of Holocaust survivors and victims, as well as their loved ones, even fifty years later. Told with beautiful attention to detail and an acute understanding of pain, Ms. Fritz weaves a tale as believable as it is tragic. Reminiscent of Steig Larsson's rolling, flowing poetic prose, Ms. Fritz descriptions of Seattle and its inhabitants are laced with the metaphors of emotion and the harshness of reality. A large tome that deserves a thorough reading.
Faced with a divorce from her unfaithful husband, Nora Adler's life was already in turmoil when her precocious and troubled, half-black niece, Bettina, arrived from Europe. As a diversion, Nora, with Bettina and her mother, Ruth, sets out on a cross-country road trip, during which, the three women discover each other, and themselves.

Ms. Fritz does a masterful job of interweaving the stories of the three main characters, and through Ruth's childhood memories, we witness a very personal and haunting view of Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic policy in Germany.

I recommend this book.
Irma Fritz's "Irretrievably Broken" is an intimate portrait of the main character, Nora, and complicated characters whose family ties bring them together for a cross-country trip in which complex interrelationships are re-examined or develop. The prologue led me to think the story was going to go in one direction--Nora's romantic attachment to Max, her ex-husband. This subplot orbits around the story that develops when Nora's mulatto niece, Bettina, arrives from Europe after losing one parent, and when Ruth, Nora's mother, moves the story into a unique cross-generational family drama that takes us across the country, into Canada and, eventually in flashback, to Europe.

Nora carries us into the story through a series of flashbacks to her life with her unfaithful husband Max, a failed actor. The author seamlessly weaves past and present, folding scenes into each other with such ease that, like the character, I felt like I was living in both present and past simultaneously--as if I was having the flashback. I really appreciate having that experience and envy the author's skill at rendering it.

Also, the writer's attention to detail creates credible scenes and puts me right in the moment. The main character Nora, a computer programmer who named her cats Dotcom and Dotorg, has an encyclopedic knowledge of botanical terms that boggles the mind.

As for characters, once you've met them and spent a little time with them, you can read the dialogue without attribution and know who is talking. This is not easy to achieve and Ms. Fritz accomplishes it skillfully.

Just when I thought the story told in present time was about Nora and her difficulties raising her European niece, Nora's authoritarian mother, Ruth, folds into the equation and they take a cross-country trip to visit friends and family. During the ride, Ruth takes us into an incredible and personal Holocaust story about her childhood in Germany. I don't want to give that story away, except to say it really got to me. Nazi horrors told through the eyes of a child--and these are well executed (no pun)--make me literally shudder. The author creates tension by revealing the horror in small doses and by having Ruth's daughter and great niece (the latter imbued with the pester power of a twelve-year-old) beg for more.

On the flip side, the multiplicity of characters (some speaking German, some speaking Spanish) and the different locations and situations introduced occasionally left me rudderless. At times, there is too much chatter between the characters. However, Fritz ties it all together. However, I have to admit that I am biased. I would normally not read a book like this. It's a tribute to the author that she could pull me in and hold me.

The story takes an interesting twist that I didn't see coming and, again, hats off to author Fritz.

This ambitious, cross-generational, interracial, multicultural story is so well realized that it's hard to believe the author's statement that the characters are fictional. If they are, this is one creative mind at work.
I just spent many enjoyable hours reading this book. It captivated me from page one! The author takes us on a road trip across America with Nora (the protagonist), her mixed-race niece Bettina, and her mother Ruth. But the book is much more than the story of a journey. We're taken into the past and shown the Holocaust from a German child's point of view, given a glimpse into life in the Canadian wilderness, and introduced to many areas (and attitudes) of the modern day United States. Ms. Fritz's characters are true to life, reflecting the mores of three generations of women with insight and understanding as their stories intertwine.

I like a book I can sink my teeth into, and Irretrievably Broken didn't disappoint. I definitely recommend this book.
Okay, this is not a book for men. This is 100% dedicated to women. With that said, I really did enjoy the overly descriptive adjectives the author has truly mastered. She provides the reader with every little detail one can possible imagine. At times, it is a bit overwhelming but sincere.

I did not get caught-up in the different cultural clashes most reviewers have alluded to. I was following the story and very interested in how everything would come together with the past, present and future for Ruth, Nora, and Bettina.

The author does a brilliant job in meshing multiple characters and their interactions from Nazi Germany to present and how the past keeps guiding them on a trip across the US and onto to Germany in an attempt to let the past be fully embraced and accepted, whether it was good or bad.

The story lost me in Book IV, chapter 4. Up until then, the pace was well planned and one could feel the story coming together, but then it disappeared. This is where the descriptions became too overbearing and overshadowed the various stories we were following. The end became very anti-climatic.

As I stated earlier, this a book for readers who love being enmeshed with feelings and descritptions.