Margarettown Author:Gabrielle Zevin In the playful tradition of The Time Traveler’s Wife comes an enchanting story about love in its many forms, and a man’s timeless journey into the unknowable territory of the woman he loves. From the moment they first sleep together -- piled atop seven mattresses in her dorm room -- N. is pulled ineluctably into a rich and enc... more »hanted relationship with Margaret Towne, a woman who will introduce him to worlds he never dreamed existed.
Written as a final letter from N. to his young daughter, Jane, Margarettown recounts the story of his relationship with Margaret. Margaret Towne is the name of the woman he loves and of the town she introduces him to, Margarettown. It is a place both real and imagined, located somewhere in upstate New York and home to a mysterious "family" of women named Old Margaret, Marge, Mia, Maggie, and May. In this strange and fantastical place, N. and Margaret become joined forever.
Margarettown is a story of what it takes to love the same person for a lifetime and about the impossibility of really knowing anything about who it is we have come to love.« less
All the way through this book, I really couldn't decide if I liked it or not, but it kept me reading to the end. So I guess I did. Definitely different style of writing, it was a refreshing change, but not overly challenging to get into.