by Jennifer Haigh, Jennifer Van Dyck
I _really_ enjoyed it, only to realize, a day after I finished it, that the ending - or rather, all of the plot endings - were more or less implausible.
I read a real book, guys!So the description of this book will have you believe it is about a girl with Turner's syndrome and how this affects her life and her family.It is only very marginally about this. This book is really just about people, and how life never turns out the way you think it's goin...
I don't know. I'm not a big fan of literary fiction, really, and when it's that specific type of literary fiction where nothing happens except like, ordinary people living ordinary lives, I'm even less of a fan. I like character development and all, but I do need some plot, The Condition didn't ha...
I liked it, but not as much as Mrs. Kimble.
The flap copy states that the core event in the book is Gwen’s “condition,” but I did not really get that from reading the book. Her medical condition is one of several conditions addressed in the book, emotional conditions, maybe the “human condition.” This is a domestic novel, a multigenerational...
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