![]() ![]() I won’t get into the supporting characters too much for fear of giving something away, but I even loved and loathed them as I was supposed to. As he grew up and started to go after what he wanted, I was firmly on his side, cheering him on through everything. Moses is a sensitive soul, and I found myself wanting to protect him in his childhood years. Gothic doesn’t feel like exactly the right word to describe this book, but melodramatic has a negative connotation, at least to me, so I’m going to stick with Gothic. And I was in the right mood for this one. The side of me that loves dark, convoluted, Gothic stories absolutely loved this book! A mother widely believed to be mad, an evil father, life with monks, and love against all odds just add up to the perfect read when I am in the right mood. On Moses’s death, however, his son found a memoir that told of Moses’s humble beginnings and how father and son found each other. When his son asked how they had come to be together, Moses would studiously avoid the question. Moses Froben, an opera singer of world-renown, raised a son who could not possibly have been his own. ![]()
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