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Now You See Her
by
Whitney Otto
"Graceful...Poetic...Otto's voice is sympathetic and direct, her imagination equally practical and romantic."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
"ENCHANTING...ASTONISHING AND LOVELY."
--Entertainment Weekly
Kiki Shaw, a game show question writer, is about to turn forty. She doesn't mind that, except that she's also disappearing. Parts of her that were always there are vanishing, and...more
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
"ENCHANTING...ASTONISHING AND LOVELY."
--Entertainment Weekly
Kiki Shaw, a game show question writer, is about to turn forty. She doesn't mind that, except that she's also disappearing. Parts of her that were always there are vanishing, and...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
March 7th 1995
by Ballantine Books
(first published 1994)
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Jan 05, 2009
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Admittedly _Now You See Her_ isn't my kind of book, in fact I never would have picked it up if better audiobook options had been available at the time. Maybe one has to be in the middle of a midlife crisis in order to appreciate this book, but I'm not even sure that would help. Otto begins with an interesting premise - a woman approaching her 40th birthday begins literally to disappear - and accompanies it with acute observations about how women of a certain age vanish from the American public e...more
Having just turned 39, this novel was profound for me. There are days you wonder where things have gone, wonder what the future holds, wonder what it all is FOR. Those feelings hit you every now and then, HARD, and it just gets you so much that you break down. Surprisingly, you are fine a few days later.
I have to admit, it took about half the book for me to really enjoy it. The first half is disjointed, takes too long to really set the characters up (I often felt Nora and Collier should have bee...more
I have to admit, it took about half the book for me to really enjoy it. The first half is disjointed, takes too long to really set the characters up (I often felt Nora and Collier should have bee...more
This is a feminist version of Kafka's Metamorphosis. Instead of waking one morning to complete self-transformation into a large insect, this protagonist finds herself gradually disappearing as she nears forty. Many passages are profound and thought-provoking as the novel grapples with issues facing modern women today as they search for meaning, passion, and purpose. However, some tangents are a bit trite...and the novel ends on a decidedly corny note.
There was something about this book that didn't seem grounded--the plot felt beneath a layer of fog, the characters not terribly compelling. Only when Kiki de Montparnasse entered the narrative did I begin to become curious, and unfortunately, that ended as soon as it began.
NOW YOU SEE HER - Okay
Otto, Whitney - Novel
Kiki Shaw, approaching age 40, finds that she is becoming invisible. This process is the result of the American male's attitude toward single, aging women. Kiki's women friends are also being rendered invisible and weightless, both physically and psychologically. Each has her own way of coping. Kiki finds the process unnerving but is helpless to stop it. When she disappears completely, she goes to Paris, where she meets the ghost of her namesake, Kiki d...more
Otto, Whitney - Novel
Kiki Shaw, approaching age 40, finds that she is becoming invisible. This process is the result of the American male's attitude toward single, aging women. Kiki's women friends are also being rendered invisible and weightless, both physically and psychologically. Each has her own way of coping. Kiki finds the process unnerving but is helpless to stop it. When she disappears completely, she goes to Paris, where she meets the ghost of her namesake, Kiki d...more
A woman's mid life crisis expressed though her becoming invisible, taking stock and finally finding out what she wants from life. Kind of more in the vein of the author's other books about people who did not grow up.
I think this was the first Whitney Otto book I ever read. I loved it. It also made me decide that having a career writing the answers for Jeopardy would be amazing...
I suffered through this one. It was tedious to say the least. A lot of back and forth with outer lying characters and not much with the main character until the end... strange really.
I just wanted this book to be over with. The plot was not strong enough to hold my interest and it jumped all over the place... too abstract- totally disappointing.
Read many moons ago and reread in honor of growing a year older- love it love it!
i could not, even after several starts, read this book. Not all all what I expected.
Too close to home, liked previous novel better - How to Make and American Quilt
This book was fantastically horrible. I think perhaps the author is not quite as deep as she thinks she is. There was all of this bizarre talk of "disappearing". One would assume that she meant metaphorically so, but no....she kept insisting that the character was physically disappearing. Lots of details about each and every character's lives and thoughts but nothing nothing nothing ever happened. Oh, you thought for SURE things were GOING to happen. No. Nothing happened. I would recommend this...more
I read this directly after reading How to Make an American Quilt. I really really didn't like it and thought it was stupid. I still remember some line in the book, about how two ex-lovers were lying if they were still friends, or if that was true, they'd never really loved each other. I remember my bullshit detector going off about that line while I was reading it at age 15, and I still think about how it's wrong over a decade later.
Very interesting, smart book. She plays with the idea of women's visibility/invisibility in the world. She does this by looking through the eyes of different types of women who are interrelated. It is a book that deserves thorough analysis.
Couldn't bring myself to read this one for the longest time but once I did, I loved it. There is so much here about the importance of knowing yourself and finding yourself when you didn't even realize you were lost.
this book was a let down.. it started out with a really good premise but it started to drag.. and by the end it was already dead to me.
A book about self-discovery and taking chances. I like this writer's style.
Concept is better than the execution.
I was loving this until the last chapter.
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This is Otto's best novel ...
Not so good, not so bad.
May 15, 2013
Kasane Teto
marked it as to-read
May 07, 2013
Tony Cordova-lucero
marked it as to-read
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Whitney Otto is the bestselling author of How to Make an American Quilt (which was made into a feature film), Now You See Her, and The Passion Dream Book. A native of California, she lives with her husband and son in Portland, Oregon.
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