Books Michael Ondaatje Divisadero

Divisadero is a multi-layered novel about family, love, and memory. The story begins in the 1970s in Northern California, where a makeshift family consisting of a farmer, his two teenage daughters (Anna and Claire), and a young man named Coop is shattered by an act of violence. The narrative follows the characters as their lives diverge and takes the reader from San Francisco to Nevada and eventually to rural France. There, Anna becomes engrossed in the story of a writer from an earlier time, whose life circles back to her own. The book explores themes of passion, loss, and the inescapable influence of the past.