Synopsis (credit: back cover)

In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives.

Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada’s casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past.

Found in the wild (non-BookCrossing book).
Earlier this month we were on a bicycle tour through Belgium. In the reception area at Camping Blaarmeersen, Gent, we found this book on a shelf with free-exchange books when we booked our campsite for the night. In exchange, I released this book there.

Reading a book by Michael Ondaatje has always been a special experience for me. This one is no exception.

Delicately structured glimpses from a web of interlaced lives, all of them "trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past" as the blurb so neatly phrases it. The man is a master.