{"id":292510,"date":"2025-06-14T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/far-and-away-by-amy-poeppel\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T09:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:52:46","slug":"far-and-away-by-amy-poeppel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=292510","title":{"rendered":"Far and Away, by Amy Poeppel****-*****"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattlebookmamablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/farandaway.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9409\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/seattlebookmamablog.org\/?attachment_id=9409\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/seattlebookmamablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/farandaway.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"322,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FarandAway\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/seattlebookmamablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/farandaway.jpg?w=193\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/seattlebookmamablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/farandaway.jpg?w=322\" src=\"https:\/\/seattlebookmamablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/farandaway.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9409\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amy Poeppel is the queen of intelligent feel-good novels. Her newest work, <em>Far and Away, <\/em>is about two women that have never met, one in Dallas, one in Berlin, who exchange houses for several months. The deal is done fast, as both of them have a short time to line something up, and soon they will both regret their hasty decisions.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks go to NetGalley and Emily Bestler Books for the invitation to read and review. This book is for sale now.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I love best about Poeppel\u2019s writing is her ability to create a complex plot with a lot of moving pieces, along with believable, sympathetic characters; yet somehow, the whole thing is easily understood, never confusing. Our story starts with Lucy and her family in Dallas, Texas. Her eldest child, Jack, is about to graduate from a private high school, then attend M.I.T. At the last minute, however, he is expelled unceremoniously. He\u2019s done something dumb, and it\u2019s been interpreted as something more sinister. He isn\u2019t even offered a chance to explain or to defend himself. And though there is a lot of other business involving other characters, I enjoy this part most for the message it sends us at a time it\u2019s desperately needed. Before you judge someone, take a moment to listen. Ask some questions before you hurl accusations and seek vengeance. If the behavior is as deplorable as you think it is, there\u2019s still plenty of time to accuse and avenge afterward.&nbsp; We in the U.S. and also Europeans can benefit from this one tasty nugget. Plenty of others can, too.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the world in Berlin, Greta\u2019s husband Otto has been invited to teach for a term at a college in Texas. He\u2019s accepted without even discussing it with Greta; he has to go right away! Where will they even live? Otto suggests a hotel; Greta is having none of it. In her desperate search for last minute housing, she is connected with someone that knows that Lucy has decided, quite suddenly, to relocate for the summer. The accusations against Jack have turned to harassment and vandalism, and she\u2019s ready to get out of Dodge. Her husband is incommunicado, performing a simulation for NASA, a part of which is to be cut off from everyone else. Mason still thinks that Jack graduated, and that M.I.T. is Jack\u2019s next step.<\/p>\n<p>And so it is that Lucy and her brood relocate to Greta\u2019s apartment in Berlin, and Greta and Otto take up residence in the massive experimental home in Dallas owned by Lucy and Mason. Not a lot of details have been exchanged about either place; there hasn\u2019t been time. So, they get on the plane, and everybody gets what they get, to their sometimes consternation.<\/p>\n<p>There are many hilarious moments here; I especially enjoy the foreign language errors made, both English to German, and German to English.<\/p>\n<p>If there were one thing I could change, I\u2019d rework the epilogue. There\u2019s a considerable jump in time, but the chapter heading doesn\u2019t tell us, and so I am taking in details while doing some mental calculations. That\u2019s not so bad when it\u2019s at the start of a book, but at the end, it\u2019s disorienting and breaks the flow. I also feel as if there were too many things tied up with too many bows. A kindergarten teacher told me once that the key to having a kindergartner paint, was to know when to stop them. It may also apply to adults and their writing.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I loved this book! Part of the magic is due to Poeppel\u2019s understanding of human nature, which is inherently good, and part of it is her hilariously quirky humor that often drops in, seemingly out of nowhere. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Poeppel is the queen of intelligent feel-good novels. Her newest work, Far and Away, is about two women that have never met, one in Dallas, one in Berlin, who exchange houses for several months. 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