Switched NR Walker 9781541270312 Books
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Israel Ingham’s life has never been easy. He grew up in a house devoid of love and warmth. Nothing he ever did was good enough. The fact Israel is gay just added to the long list of his father’s disappointments. Then a letter from Eastport Children’s Hospital changes everything. A discovery is made, one of gross human error. Twenty-six years ago two baby boys were switched at birth and sent home with the wrong families. Sam, Israel’s best friend, has been his only source of love and support. With Sam beside him every step of the way, Israel decides to meet his birth mother and her son, the man who lived the life Israel should have. Israel and Sam become closer than ever, amidst the tumultuous emotions of meeting his birth family, and Sam finds himself questioning his feelings toward his best friend. As Israel embraces new possibilities, he needs to dissect his painful relationship with his parents in order to salvage what’s left. Because sometimes it takes proof you’re not actually family to become one.
Switched NR Walker 9781541270312 Books
'Switched' is the perfect story of imperfect family, of love, and of the ties that bind relationships. It's not just the story of Israel and the discovery that he was accidently switched at birth. It's not just a story of the implications and ramifications of this discovery. It's not just the story of his parents, or his birth parents, or his relationship with both families. It's not just a story of his friendship with his best friend Sam and the realisation that there is more to this friendship than he'd ever imagined. It's a story of all this and then some.If there is one thing NR Walker can do, it's write brilliantly layered, superbly nuanced, deeply emotive stories with characters who are complex, genuine and aching to tell you their stories.
I was lucky to have been provided an ARC of Switched by the author for a genuine review. I have now also purchased a copy for my personal library. I legitimately loved this story and now place it as one of my recommended reads of the year
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Switched NR Walker 9781541270312 Books Reviews
Well, this was pretty intense. I am surprised I’d not read more by N.R. Walker before. Obviously, or I would have known she was Australian. This was a good book to start with. Strong writing, wonderfully complete characters backed up by a rich supporting cast, Walker’s story is emotionally powerful and while there were a couple of things that stretched my credulity a bit, I loved it overall.
Israel Ingham has an outwardly ideal life, but his friends know that it’s not so perfect. The real issue is his hostile and distant parents, to whom he has always been a disappointment. He works with his very successful, very rich father, and he actually loves his job, but ever since he came out to his parents as a teenager, it has been a cold war with them.
Samuel Finch, his bestie since high school, is the brightest light in his life. Sam’s a lawyer now, and his family is not just far richer than Israel’s, but old money to boot. They, on the other hand, have taken Israel in as one of their own, and have given him the love he missed at home. I love that Walker has taken the effort to show how good and warm these people are, in spite of their social position.
And then there are the boys, the little gang of gay twenty-somethings with whom Sam and Israel hang out, drink, and cruise Sydney’s club scene. They tease Sam and Israel about being married, and wonder that neither of these handsome, successful young men has managed to find a longterm boyfriend.
And then it all gets knocked to pieces. Seems that in the neonatal care unit in the hospital where Israel was born twenty-six years earlier, somebody accidently switched him with another baby boy born at the same time. Israel is not his parents’ son. There’s another young man out there who got Israel’s life.
This is Israel’s journey to find himself in a world where he has always felt detached and out of place. It is the story of two families, the Inghams and the Westbrooks, dealing with a shattering reality that was not their fault. I remember exactly who I was at 26 years old, and I can barely imagine how devastating finding out I’d been switched at birth would have been for me. Walker takes this maelstrom of emotion and gives the reader a heady emotional ride, creating a parallel between Israel’s awareness of his birth family and his awakening to the real nature of his twelve-year friendship with Sam.
If I had any grouse with the plot overall, it is that somehow Israel would have had so little understanding of his parents’ own back story at the age of twenty-six. Somehow, I think even the burden of being a disappointment, and his parents’ emotional distance, can’t quite justify Israel’s complete ignorance of what makes his mother and father tick. But, then again, if he’s dense enough not to see what Sam is to him, maybe some of the problem lies in his own blinkered heart…maybe being switched at birth is what Israel needed to find himself.
Lots of good stuff here. Walker tells a tale with elegance and authenticity. I loved the people in this book, and need to read more of her work.
So…I just finished Switched by the fabulous NR Walker. https//www./dp/B01N7M3PBW/ Published 12/26/2016, and I must say, while it has been a crap year, Switched may have saved it. FIVE HUGE STARS.
The idea of being switched at birth is something I, personally, have long been fascinated with. Stemming from my long-term belief that one of us, either myself or my mom, is an alien, enough about me.
Such a powerful subject someone made a mistake and you are not only not who you thought you were, but you don’t even belong to the family you were raised in. Couple this with a disdainful, cold family life and you have the sum of Israel Ingham’s journey. The only thing which has sustained him through the years of disapproval and outright disgust from his parents, is his long-term friendship with Sam.
It is with extreme tenderness and care that NR Walker explores the possibility of finding family when all bets are off, all hope is lost. By opening himself up to the possibility of another family (one in which he is like other people and is not alone), Israel forces his own parents (the ones who raised him) to come to terms with their personal secrets and painful family history. Walker explores subjects, which in the past, have been relatively taboo (don’t want to give away a plot point), but ones which should be talked about more often. Along the way Israel starts to feel differently about his boyhood friend Sam too. Sam, who he has always turned to in times of need and received unwavering support from.
The meat of the story is set over a short time frame, giving the reader insight into Israel’s discovery and subsequent inner turmoil while he tries to navigate a new family as well as whatever it is he and Sam have going. I loved that there was no bad guy here. No one is perfect, reasons for why Israel was treated the way he was are revealed as he peels back his own family’s history. I loved the easy relationship between Sam and Israel as well as the rest of their posse. Loved this book.
Any fan of NR Walker will love this most recent addition, if you haven’t read Walker’s work yet, this is a perfect time and place to start.
'Switched' is the perfect story of imperfect family, of love, and of the ties that bind relationships. It's not just the story of Israel and the discovery that he was accidently switched at birth. It's not just a story of the implications and ramifications of this discovery. It's not just the story of his parents, or his birth parents, or his relationship with both families. It's not just a story of his friendship with his best friend Sam and the realisation that there is more to this friendship than he'd ever imagined. It's a story of all this and then some.
If there is one thing NR Walker can do, it's write brilliantly layered, superbly nuanced, deeply emotive stories with characters who are complex, genuine and aching to tell you their stories.
I was lucky to have been provided an ARC of Switched by the author for a genuine review. I have now also purchased a copy for my personal library. I legitimately loved this story and now place it as one of my recommended reads of the year
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