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A Better Life

Auteur(s): Lionel Shriver
Narrateur(s): George Newbern
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In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant—who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be.

Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new city program that would pay her to take in a migrant as a boarder. Gloria is thrilled when sweet, kind, helpful Martine arrives. But Nico is skeptical. A classic live-at-home Gen Zer with no interest in adulthood, Nico resents any interruption of his “hovercraft repose.”

As the months go by, Martine endears herself to both Nico’s sisters, while finding her way into Gloria’s heart and even, briefly, Nico’s. But as Martine’s disturbingly dodgy compatriots begin to show up, Nico conceives a dark twin hostile to both his mother’s altruism and the “migrant crisis” in general—and turns out to be anything but a reliable narrator himself.

Based loosely on a program a New York City mayor floated but did not initiate, A Better Life is Lionel Shriver at her best: smart, funny, and sensitive to the moral nuances of perhaps the most divisive issue of our times.

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Engaging and funny from beginning to end. Thank you Lionel Shriver for your courageous eye opening novel. A must read!

Funny and smart

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I have just finished this book and can't help but feel heartbroken. I know it is a fictional tale, but more and more in my everyday life I see many aspects of what Nico and his mother went through... and it saddens me immensely. I view, pessimistically, that this book is more of a foreshadowing of whats to come, rather than a cautionary tale sparking efforts at avoidance...

My heart broke listening to what Nico and his sisters endured, only to have that heart torn out a few chapters later in a finale of dreadful injustice. Lionel Shriver weaved many fitting analogies for what this family went through to the real-life events that are slowly metastasizing here in the USA/Canada into what may become a death sentence.

That being said; this book was one I couldn't put down or press pause on. I felt like I had become a part of the Bonaventura family and will be saddened by the story for a while here... but I guess that is what great storytelling does.

10/10 recommend. A great story. Thank you Lionel Shriver.

Endless injustices. A sad foreshadowing.

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I enjoyed the book, with unexpected outcomes. It was not subtle as to its purpose or message. Unfortunately it was too close to reality for comfort, though I not sure of the high occurrence of the main plot. But it is a novel. Consider a mix of fiction and nonfiction.

A eye opener on issues in US

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