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Paperback A Handbook to Luck Book

ISBN: 0307276805

ISBN13: 9780307276803

A Handbook to Luck

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In the late 60s, three teenagers from around the globe are making their way in the world: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California with his flamboyant magician father; Marta Claros, getting by in the slums of San Salvador; Leila Rezvani, a well-to-do surgeon's daughter in Tehran. We follow them through the years, surviving war, disillusionment, and love, as their lives and paths intersect. With its cast of vividly drawn characters,...

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Rated 4 stars
Wise, Beautiful, and Emotionally Layered

"A Handbook To Luck," by Christina Garcia, is a lovely novel about the bittersweet roles that luck, coincidence, happenstance, and choice play in our lives. It's a very short novel that feels more like three intertwining novellas. The stories unfold chronologically as we follow three separate protagonists--Enrique Florit, the mathematically gifted Cuban-American son of a flamboyant professional magician; Marta Claros, a...

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Rated 5 stars
Great Characters rolling the dice of life

I really enjoyed the complexity and unique-ness of all three of the main characters. They each had their own motivations to drive their choices--which were not always noble, but true to their characters. While "luck" wasn't an obvious metaphor each character did take a chance and it was just as much a gamble for them as it was for the reader. For all three of the characters I was willing to follow the choices they made--not...

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Rated 5 stars
Expanding the horizons of Hispanic literature

Cristina Garcia brings an array of characters to her latest novel, including figures from Cuba and El Salvador, and thus adds to the dimensions of Hispanic writing in the United States. A splendid read!

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Rated 4 stars
A bittersweet novel

Cristina Garcia's "A Handbook to Luck" centered around Enrique, the son of a Las Vegas magician from Cuba who was a genius in mathematics and was thrown into the world of poker as he grew up in the casino environment. Enrique had always blamed his father, Fernando for his mother's death as she died from one of Fernando's acts. He met Leila, a beautiful girl from Iran who was in Las Vegas for a vacation before her arranged...

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