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Back When We Were Grownups
by Anne Tyler
by Anne Tyler
I loved the title and the first line is definately one the draw you in and think this is going to be a great book. Rebecca is 53 years old and suddenly feels she's not living the life she's meant to live. Okay, so she's going to make changes to become the woman she ought to be to prove to the reader it's never too late, right? No.
She reconnects with her boyfriend that she left to marry Joe. All her visions are wrong about him and his daughter. They seem to disagree more than they agree. What he remembers about their past is much different than what she remembers. He even tells her she's social which she denies although throwing parties is her career. She's content to be with him until she remembers a few more things about him that drove her nuts and probably into Joe's arms.
She had three stepdaughters and one biological daughter. When the youngest stepdaughter acquires a stepson Rebecca isn't helping NoNo along. When something was brought up Rebecca only bit her tounge. Rebecca is really the first one to bond with the boy and that was because he overheard a phone conversation that three of her daughters are stepdaughters. He feels he might have a place.
We are suppose to get the feeling she doesn't fit in and feel like she doesn't really belong. Yet, everything the family does centers around her. Even when NoNo gets married, Tina, the girls' biological mother stays at the house. In the end there are no changes in her life and maybe only a slight more contentment.
Maybe some of this is the fact I'm Min Foo's age rather than Rebecca's. I was just hoping for me out of this story.
She reconnects with her boyfriend that she left to marry Joe. All her visions are wrong about him and his daughter. They seem to disagree more than they agree. What he remembers about their past is much different than what she remembers. He even tells her she's social which she denies although throwing parties is her career. She's content to be with him until she remembers a few more things about him that drove her nuts and probably into Joe's arms.
She had three stepdaughters and one biological daughter. When the youngest stepdaughter acquires a stepson Rebecca isn't helping NoNo along. When something was brought up Rebecca only bit her tounge. Rebecca is really the first one to bond with the boy and that was because he overheard a phone conversation that three of her daughters are stepdaughters. He feels he might have a place.
We are suppose to get the feeling she doesn't fit in and feel like she doesn't really belong. Yet, everything the family does centers around her. Even when NoNo gets married, Tina, the girls' biological mother stays at the house. In the end there are no changes in her life and maybe only a slight more contentment.
Maybe some of this is the fact I'm Min Foo's age rather than Rebecca's. I was just hoping for me out of this story.
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