Book Feature/Mini-Review: Love of a Stonemason by Christa Polkinhorn

Love of a Stonemason by Christa Polkinhorn
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release:July 24, 2010

Paperback, 434 pages

I promised Christa I would review her book today and it was my full intention to do so, but I forgot to schedule in the fact that I had two winter concerts to go to this week and a sickness to deal with as well. 

I am in the middle of reading Love of a Stonemason and I have to say what I have read is beautiful.  Christa makes the words flow so easily and the sights, sounds and textures of the setting come through beautifully.  She really paints the picture of the story with her words.  So far I am loving the characters of Karla and Andreas, they feel very real to me.  I am also intrigued with where life is taking them, both figuratively and literally.  They are traveling and exploring and I am enjoying every minute.   I will post a full review within the next day or two when I finish the book, but know this is a prize of a book if it continues the way it has started and I fully believe it will.



About the Book:

The young painter, Karla Bocelli, is no stranger to loss. When she was five years old, her mother died in a car crash in the south of Switzerland. Her Peruvian father lives at the other end of the world, and a year ago, her aunt and guardian passed away. Now, at age twenty-four, Karla almost gets hit by a speeding car. As if this wasn't fateful enough, Andreas, the driver, turns out to be a sculptor and carver of tombstones. In spite of his profession, Andreas is anything but morbid. Quick-tempered and intense, he exudes a rough-and-tumble energy. After a tumultuous start of their relationship, Karla comes to see in Andreas the "rock in her life," the perfect antidote to her fears of abandonment and bouts of depression. Andreas, however, wrestles with his own ghosts: an alcoholic father who abused him as a child and his own fits of anger. Together, the two artists must confront the demons that haunt them. Love of a Stonemason is a story about the struggle of two artists with their past, their family, their creativity, and their love for each other. Told from the point of view of Karla, it depicts the world through her painter's sensibility. It takes the reader on a journey full of sights, smells, tastes, and sounds from the south of Switzerland to Italy and the Peruvian Andes.

About the Author:
Christa Polkinhorn, originally from Switzerland, lives and works as writer and translator in Santa Monica, California. She divides her time between the United States and Switzerland and has strong ties to both countries. Her poems have appeared in various poetry magazines. She is the author of Path of Fire, a collection of poems published by Finishing Line Press. Love of a Stonemason is her first novel.
 

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