Nicely written. Fable-like tone. I enjoyed the read very much, but Book Clubs, be warned, it might be a divisive read. Having said that, good choice for book clubs.

We are reading this book for our book club and I find it really hard to read. The lack of connection between the underlining plots makes it difficult to keep reading.

A beautifully written work with questions about faith and reason.

There were so many blank areas to me. Just could not get in to the story. The only character that was exciting was the deathless man.

I chose this book for our most recent book club selection based on glowing reviews from critics and the fact that it was a finalist for the National Book Award. Typically we all enjoy reading about other cultures and appreciate novels with a bit of truth (in place or time). We agreed that the sections about the deathless man and the sections about the tiger (and the tiger's wife) were enjoyable, but there was something missing when the author brought in the granddaughter and tried to tie the pieces together. We were waiting to learn more about what she was doing as a physician or her relationship with her friend; in the end, it might have been much better to leave the reader with less information, if she could not expand more. I understand the creative wish to leave the reader with more questions and to come to their own conclusions, but because large parts of this book rambled on without much content, and other parts painted a vivid picture of a time and place most of us are unfamiliar with -- it just left us all disappointed.

I did not care for this book at all. I found it difficult to follow and rather boring. I tend to not care for books that bounce around and this one definitely did that.

The Tiger's Wife is a blend of historical fiction and folktale. The imagery provides a glimpse into a war torn country and the folktales that help the inhabitants deal with the death and destruction that surrounds the generations that have never known a country at peace. Folktale and reality are blended together to create a beautifully written story.

There were some lovely lines of prose in the novel with beautiful rhythm. Yet the characters, for the most part, remained unengaging and weakly developed. The novel meanders off into long digressions and backstories. Our book club members, overall, didn't enjoy the novel. We had an interesting discussion that perhaps helped us get closer to understanding the author's intent. But if you expect to read a book once and have an understanding of it, this isn't the book for you. You would need to read it several times and dissect it to unravel the threads to get to the point.

It is incredible the amount of hype this book has received. The fact is that it is boring, confusing & a horribly dull read in every aspect. We found ourselves skimming & praying it would end & quickly. Don't waste your time. I just don't get what all the fuss is about. This book is NOT good, not at all.

I often find Russian and Slavic authors scattered and hard to follow. This book stayed true to my past experiences. Though it did tie together in the end and had a fanciful,reality vs follore twist to it, I often found it difficult to follow.

Too confusing, good story but it was all over the place. Confusing,

A book with so much fanfare, hype and potential. And the result? Utter disappointment. This book started off with so much potential: a story of a close connection between grandfather and grandchild. Sure, that's what all the reviews say and the summary of the book state. But what follows in an endless book of random characters, random side stories and random tidbits is a mess of distortion. I have no idea, after reading the entire book, who or what the Tiger's Wife is, was or represented. The connection/relationship between the character, her grandfather, her grandmother, and even her mother was nonexistent. The book has some surreal parts (The Deathless Man) that didn't add anything to me. As a whole, the book was cold, austere and didn't prove to me any human relationships or empathy. I truly do not understand the hype behind this book...and am disappointed that I bought into the hype and muddled through the book to finish reading it with a "are you kidding? that's it?" Wholly dissatisfying and disjointed. Not a story but a bunch of seemingly short stories poorly woven together.
Go ahead and skip this one on the "must read" list. I wish I had.

Not many in our club could follow the book, too disjointed. Parts were very good, most parts very slow.

I have no idea why this book would be on the best seller's list. Didn't learn anything, didn't really have any interest in boring characters. Would not recommend this.

Just couldn't build momentum with this book. Long, run on sentences. Only one member of our club finished this book and felt it was not worth sticking it out.

My book club tried to read this book but to tell the truth I was the only person to finish it. We all agreed that the author has potential but this book was just a hot mess. The chapters did not flow smoothly from one to another. She would go from a current point in time to the past and there would be no point of reference. I didn't even realize until about half way through the book that the protagonist was female! My advise: wait until this young author has time to hone her craft. Don't bother trying to read The Tiger's Wife...it is a waste of time.

This book is very hard to describe. It was not my favorite book to read and most of the group did not really care for it. However, we did have a very good discussion about the book regarding death.

A little confusing at times but the author writes in such a way that I can't help but read some passages over and over - she made me feel the story, not just read it.

This book is a difficult read. If you\'re looking for fluff don\'t read it but if thought provoking discussion is what your club enjoys go for it. It is complex in nature and style. Obreht moves from the literal to magical realism failrly seamlessly. Her lyrical writing will take you away. She takes on the difficult subjects of life, death and the different ways cultures/ethnicities/people deal with them. Our book club came away liking it much more after we discussed this multi layered novel. A book that begs to be read again because there is just too much to ingest on one reading.

The book was well written and I found the individual stories to be interested; however, I kept waiting for the "dots to connect" at the end and for me, that did not happen.

This book was interesting but a bit confusing. The author tells several different stories that take place through different time periods in lives of the 2 mani characters. However this author tells these stories in pieces and jumps back and forth through them. The stories were well written but we waited through the whole book for these stories to be tied together and that never happened.

The book was very vivid in descriptions but a bit hard to follow in places. I was glad to have read it, but it was confusing in some of its stories.

Kept trying to figure out where the story was set and what side anyone was on. The City? What is that? The story kept leaping from present to past to magic or folk stories without any indication that you were now in a different timeframe.