Dear First Love : A Novel

Rating:
Summary: Good premise, poor execution
Review: Writing a novel about present day Havana where Danae, a dissatisfied housewife and mother leaves her husband to find her first love, is a great idea. Telling the story from various inanimate objects is a clever way to tell the story from an omniscient narrator. But something gets lost in the process and Valdes takes just a bit too long to tell us their love story. I was able to read 100 pages in one sitting, but I was unable to finish it.