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Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2021
I Love words. I Love good writing. I Love poetic writing. I Love what some would call "overwritten books". And I wanted to Love this book. The elements to a great book are all here. Honest domestic drama. Dysfunction. Religion. Teenaged angst. The trauma of overseas adoption. Abortion. Sad marriages.
But this author was apparently so anxious to display her superior writing skills that she just ran over her story with a steamroller. The chronology is a bit confusing in the beginning. This is remedied by labeling the chapters with the character's names. But there was so much unnecessary stream of consciousness type verbiage that I was left just wishing that I could understand where we were, and what was happening.
I really liked Jane's (Mom) devotion to her catholic religion and protesting outside of women' health clinics. Jane's daughter, Lauren's chapters were a little tedious. Especially the complete chapter delegated to early 90's heavy metal music. TMI. The adoption of Mirella, the baby girl from Romania, was interesting and topical. I found Jane's rational acceptance of what occurred at the end of the book very unbelievable.
I am a pro choice woman. I appreciated the mention of Dr. George Tiller, who was slaughtered outside of a Kansas clinic several years ago. He was an extremely brave man. This added some heft to this book.
I can only recommend this book to those who really appreciate long disjointed and perhaps unnecessary paragraphs. This book took "getting into a reader's head" just a little too far I'm afraid.
But this author was apparently so anxious to display her superior writing skills that she just ran over her story with a steamroller. The chronology is a bit confusing in the beginning. This is remedied by labeling the chapters with the character's names. But there was so much unnecessary stream of consciousness type verbiage that I was left just wishing that I could understand where we were, and what was happening.
I really liked Jane's (Mom) devotion to her catholic religion and protesting outside of women' health clinics. Jane's daughter, Lauren's chapters were a little tedious. Especially the complete chapter delegated to early 90's heavy metal music. TMI. The adoption of Mirella, the baby girl from Romania, was interesting and topical. I found Jane's rational acceptance of what occurred at the end of the book very unbelievable.
I am a pro choice woman. I appreciated the mention of Dr. George Tiller, who was slaughtered outside of a Kansas clinic several years ago. He was an extremely brave man. This added some heft to this book.
I can only recommend this book to those who really appreciate long disjointed and perhaps unnecessary paragraphs. This book took "getting into a reader's head" just a little too far I'm afraid.
