Alma Singer

Almer Singer of The History of Love by Nicole Krauss reminds me of a typical 14 year old girl book character. Alma like Georgia of The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson and Cathy of Cathy's Book keeps a journal of some sort. Alma though, keeps her journals in a list format. Like I said before she calls her journals survival guides in honour of her late father who loved the outdoors.

Something else about Alma reminds me of some other character in some book, or perhaps a movie... I can't put my finger on it right this second. Anyways the reason she reminds me of this person is because she's very interested in the man that has employed her mother to translate Litvinoff's History of Love.(I swear everytime I look at this guy's name the spelling changes.) Alma has decided that her mother's new client who lives across the pond is a PERFECT match for her widowed mother.

So in order to arrange something between the two she's typed up a letter to this fellow and sent it to him like any 14 year old matchmaker, behind her mother's back. In the most recent twenty or so pages that I have read she's sent the letter and anxiously waits his response. But Alma also waits for of course her own mother's reaction to when she finds out.