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It's ironic that I read this book while I was reading Sex and the City. The two novels are as disparate as different planets. One book is a about an ordinary housewife struggling with life's little trials, the other, a place peppered with big names and obscene money, fur coats and Lear jets.
This book is phenomenal. It's probably the best book I've read in the last year. And it's funny to think about because there is no person, or plot twist, or moment that makes it memorable. Each and every pag ...more
This book is phenomenal. It's probably the best book I've read in the last year. And it's funny to think about because there is no person, or plot twist, or moment that makes it memorable. Each and every pag ...more
A creative twist on the unreliable-narrator trope, and bearing that quiet good humor that I love about Shields. She's one of those authors whose books never sound all that interesting in the flap copy but turn out to be surprisingly wonderful.
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I liked how the characters were either rocks or flowers.
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