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Like me, Lily King calls Maine home. And like me, she knows a lot of New England geography -- much of it put to good use in this book (esp. Boston and environs, including Walden Pond, a place where you'll never be a solitary naturalist).
The novel gets off to a slow start and seems to be another story where the plot amounts to nothing happening beyond the quotidian. A day in the life. In this case, of a wannabe writer's life -- one who works as a waitress. The first half of the book, in fact, has ...more
The novel gets off to a slow start and seems to be another story where the plot amounts to nothing happening beyond the quotidian. A day in the life. In this case, of a wannabe writer's life -- one who works as a waitress. The first half of the book, in fact, has ...more

I loved the writing and the story. The main character is undone by grief and is trying to write her way through the grief, but struggles with her relationships with men, the exhaustion of working as a waitress and her need for family. This is the fourth book I've read in the last two months in which the main character is a writer. Given the different ways in which the characters lives as writers unfold, I'm fascinated, rather than tired of this. Several Goodreads readers commented that the begin
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Lily King has written several novels. Her last, Euphoria, was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the “10 best books of 2014.” Last Spring, when so many of us were confined to our homes by COVID, I noticed her current novel on a list of “best books for comfort reading” nominated by current authors. Anne Patchett said, “Writers and Lovers made her happy. Even as the narrator grieves the loss of her mother and struggles to make art and keep a roof over her head, the novel is suffuse
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I loved her last book but I can’t get behind this one. I’ve read enough books about writers struggling to become published. And this isn’t a good version of that. Additionally, it’s OK to have a few bad men, but all of them? It feels like this is just a screed against the writing industry and men in general. She can do better.

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