Name: Olivera Mitić's review of If You Tell Me to Come, I'll Drop Everything, Just Tell Me to Come by Albert Espinosa
Item: If You Tell Me to Come, I'll Drop Everything, Just Tell Me to Come
Rating: 3
Author: Olivera Mitić

Albert Espinosa

A funny and uplifting fable about the journey to learn who we are, from the bestselling author of The Yellow World Dani has devoted his life to finding missing children. One day, as his girlfriend starts packing her bags to leave him, he gets a phone call from a distraught father asking for help. It's a strange case, one that Dani wouldn't usually take on. But, when he hears his girlfriend slam the front door, and his apartment falls into silence, he realizes it's one he can't turn down. His journey to find the lost boy takes Dani over the seas to the sleepy Italian island of Capri - a place infused with a kind of hazy magic, which begins to conjure up in Dani's mind long-forgotten memories of his own childhood. And, as he starts to unravel the story of his own life, he realises that he is not just on a quest to save the missing child - he is also on a quest to save himself. Quirky, warm-hearted, and honest, this is an uplifting parable of memory and forgiveness, as a man makes a life-changing journey across an island and into his own heart. Told in simple, emotionally-honest prose, it reveals how, by revisiting the past , we can change the shape of the future.

If You Tell Me to Come, I'll Drop Everything, Just Tell Me to Come

Olivera Mitić

Weird, just like Espinosa usually is, but still philosophical and beautifully written. 
This was my second book by him, and I believe that I can say he writes the most original stuff I have ever read. I have no clue how he manages to think of all these things and incorporate them into the story so that they work. 
While I did enjoy his other book more (Everything You and I Could Have Been If We Weren't You and I), this one didn't disappoint. It was far less magical, but the weirdness didn't lack and the life lessons were still thrown in here and there (which is something I like about his writing a lot). 
The only things that didn't sit well with me was how abruptly it ended and how there were a lot of jumps from one timeline to the other. The letter was cool at first, but got too repetitive and annoying later on.

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