I bought the book Owl Island at the airport of Hue to fly back to Ho Chi Minh, almost half a year before summer finally arrived. The first reason I bought it was because there was a quotation of a person who said that this book could make a person see 'love' in a whole new way. I never took interest love fictions. However the reason I bought it was because I wanted to have something to read, and it was also the only English book I could find. I read the first few chapters of the book right after I bought it, but alerady became bored of it. I wondered how a person could compliment a book this 'boring', because almost nothing happened in the beginning of it; so I immediatly stopped as my step-father would have told me to. "If you don't like a book, don't read it."
By the time summer finally arrived, my Oxford ASA summer program, and I needed a book to read; I had to take the plane for more than 15 hours. I wanted to buy a couple of books before leaving, but I did not think about it until the last minute, and all the other books I had were already read, except Owl Island. Was that book following me, or something? But I guess I had no other choice, so I tucked it in my carry on bag anyway.
As time was flying by, Phoebe's wounds were recovering from the last time she ever heard from Mitchell ever since the car accident on one barbecue night that she organized so perfectly. Life on Owl Island was beginning to finally flow after more than 15 years of replaying old memories of her a Mitchell almost everytime she thought of him, from the first time she met him to the accident who left a permanent print on her world. The barbecue night was suppose to be perfect as her barbecues had always been. There was to be no disturbance that were going to make her reach the cigarettes she smoked from time to time everytime things bothered her before an unexpected guest who just moved on the island, happened to be her formal lover who she bitterly lost, by the name of Whit Taynor.
Whit Taynor was a movie director with who she grew up, listening to his voice on the radio before his big career as a director. He was already part of her life when she was a teenager; he was her first love and she was his fairy girl. When Phoebe and Whit finally met, they became star crossed lover and had once plan that they were going to make 'their' first movie together about Kiki de Montparnasse. This movie was meant to be a big hit, showing off all the love and effort they put together into it but it all changed in so fast that there was no starting place to describe the struggles she had been through.
Now memories of her and Whit were starting to replay in her mind. Her feelings were shifting from left to right. From Whit to Mitchell. Did she really still like Whit she wondered? But either way there was not going to be any hope for her because that time when she met Whit again, he was already married. However, Whit never was the most truthful man on Earth, despite his charms.
As I read this book, I was reading the first mistakes she's already made but also the mistakes she was making again because of her feelings being so confused. At first, I told myself that it was ridiculous for her to fall for Whit once again if he had once opened a wound in her heart. I expected for her not to do the same mistakes again. But Owl Island's chapters were like puzzles pieces mixed together. Each chapters were like different stories that linked to the reason why she was confused.
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