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The Third Child by Marge Piercy

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Jul 22, 11

bookshelves: chicklit
Read in July, 2009

This book had the worst font! It's the little things that bug me. The book was about the third child, Girl (of course), who is like lost in her little political family. She has two older sibs who are like her mothers pride and joy and then her and her brother who are kind of left out of everything. This book takes place in current times, even though sometimes I got all confused and thought it took place in the 60's or something, but then the mother emails her children, so I knew it was more current. Just the way everyone talks, it's so old! Or it's so proper that I am not used to it. Girl
"rebels" against her parents and when she goes to college in Connecticut she dates a black boy who she thinks she likes and knows her parents wouldn't approve. Turns out the Boy is totally manipulating the Girl to spy on her parents because of some law her father passed in Pennsylvania and his father died because of it and now essentially Boy wants revenge. Girl was a total idiot for not seeing her as he was kind of an asshole sometimes. In the end, Boy and the father end up dead (not going to spoil on how) but I will say that because the book was kind of meh. I hate stupid Girls.

Grade: C

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