The History of Love is an interesting story. We first met Leo Gursky, an elderly immigrant who lives alone, his only friend his upstairs neighbor Bruno. Then there's Alma, a 15 year old girl named for a character (well, every female character, as they all have the same name) in a book called The History of Love. I especially enjoyed Alma's chapters, broke up with fun headings as she remembers her dead father, tries to set her mother up with someone new, tries to encourage her little brother Bird to stop thinking he's the Messiah and act normal, writes books about surviving in the wild, and begins a romance with a Russian boy.
Alma decides to try to find the Alma of the book and sets of on a journey that is tied to Leo, though neither of them knows it yet. The History of Love was written by Zvi Litvinoff and his connection to the other characters is eventually revealed.
The narrators are engaging, but the best part is trying to connect the pieces of how all the characters are connected. I didn't feel a really strong emotional connection to it, but I was happy with the ending.
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