
Lion
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Sonya Walger
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By:
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Sonya Walger
Lion is about an unlikely parent, more legend than presence in his daughter's life. He is a charismatic, dashing bon-vivant, a polo player, race car driver, cocaine addict, ex-con, pilot, and sky-diver. Born in the aftershocks of Argentina's greatest earthquake, he is like a minor god who comes down to earth in a grand manner, falling in all the ways there are to fall.
Lion is a double portrait told in a perpetual present tense that moves back and forth between present-day Los Angeles, where the narrator lives with her family and works as an actress, and the past of her peripatetic childhood, spent shuttling between her mother in England, boarding school, and her father and his successive wives in Buenos Aires and Lima.
Sonya Walger's stunning autobiographical debut is an emotionally acute palimpsest of a novel about a father and daughter, in which the drama and incident, love and tragedy that make up his life make up hers as well. The legend of his life and her distinctive and imaginatively charged telling of it make for an engrossing and unforgettable family saga.
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Gorgeous writing!
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Heartachingly beautiful
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Outstanding prose
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At times heartbreaking and at times marvelous we learn about her father’s life and the space she and her siblings had within it.
No family is, in a conventional sense, “normal” but what Sonya gives us is a window into her life with an absent father that through perhaps selfishness led a life of what it felt like complete and utter freedom. And with that freedom comes consequences.. we get a glimpse of what those consequences meant for all those around him and even himself in the end.
As an Argentine and a nomad myself, I felt very connected with her story. And while my father’s absence was different than hers, her commentary on the feelings and deeper understanding of what she went through as a child, through her eyes as an adult with a family of her own now, ring very true.
I recommend this book to everyone. While she describes it as a novel, the autobiographical tones are definitely there. And as one of my favorite actresses, Sonya lets us in on her life story and what a rich story it is.
A wonderful novel about a life that few would dare to tell
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Outstanding novel
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A perfect book club consideration
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One senses that Ms. Walger’s urgency to unpack her complicated relationship with her Dad made this book inevitable. Thankfully she’s got the writing chops and a captivating voice to share it all. She affords us insight, if we have the guts to actively experience her book, into all parental bonds. The ease and fluidity of the prose here, as she bounces through a lifetime of memories with her father, is nothing short of enthralling. The reader falls in love with her Dad despite many profound shortfalls in his parenting and his judgment.
As a proud Dad who knows he did many things right but suffers the inescapable guilt of each mistake made, I loved this book.
Wonderful Memorial to an Imperfect but Nonetheless Loving Dad
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