Chris Bohjalian Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/chris-bohjalian/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:45:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Chris Bohjalian Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/chris-bohjalian/ 32 32 38398750 The Guest Room https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/the-guest-room/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/the-guest-room/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2016 08:14:20 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5559   Chris Bohjalian always manages to tell a great story and in a way that encompasses its truth, but in The Guest Room he delves into the kind of subjects that make us squeamish—the underbelly of our society, a place most of us never hear about. Richard Chamberlain is a happily married investment banker who agrees […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/the-guest-room/feed/ 12 5559 Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/07/close-your-eyes-hold-hands/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/07/close-your-eyes-hold-hands/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2014 07:39:59 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3012 Sweet sixteen—a time of so many changes. Learning to drive, first dates, preparing for college, and, if you’re Emily Shepard, a nuclear reactor meltdown near your tiny town in Vermont, your parents disappearing, and being evacuated from your school with only the clothes on your back. This is sixteen as seen by Chris Bohjalian in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/07/close-your-eyes-hold-hands/feed/ 7 3012 The Light in the Ruins https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/07/the-light-in-the-ruins/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/07/the-light-in-the-ruins/#comments Mon, 08 Jul 2013 07:34:50 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1883   The Light in the Ruins, Chris Bohjalian’s latest novel, is set at the Villa Chimera in Tuscany in 1943, a pastoral estate where the war is largely unseen. The Rosatis are a titled Italian family and while they have one son preparing for the Allied invasion in Sicily and another who works at a […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/07/the-light-in-the-ruins/feed/ 3 1883 The Sandcastle Girls https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/12/the-sandcastle-girls/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/12/the-sandcastle-girls/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:52:04 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1115 It was as I was nearing the finish of Chris Bohjalian’s latest novel, The Sandcastle Girls, that I was struck by how insulated and sheltered we are in the United States. I say that with a full understanding of recent events and their horrors. What I mean, is that at no time in any of […]

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