The False Friend
by:
Myla Goldberg (author)
When she was ten years old, Celia Durst did something that would seem logical only to those who can still think like a child. Out on a walk but still feuding with her best friend Djuna, Celia watched her close rival fall into a deep crevice. Instead of reporting her missing, young Durst...
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When she was ten years old, Celia Durst did something that would seem logical only to those who can still think like a child. Out on a walk but still feuding with her best friend Djuna, Celia watched her close rival fall into a deep crevice. Instead of reporting her missing, young Durst fabricated a story of a drive-away kidnapping. Responding equally inexplicably, three other girls also claimed to have witnessed the crime. Now twenty years later, Celia decides to come clean, but she learns to her consternation that such erasures are not easily achieved. A nuanced character study by the author of the Discover Great New Writers selection Bee Season.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780385533638 (0385533632)
Publish date: October 5th 2010
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 189
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
This was a very clever idea not well executed. The entirety of the book appears to be building towards something. We are slowly piecing together (way too slowly, I admit, but hey, I can forgive slow burns if they make it to the point where they become fascinating) what on earth happened, and there...
I don't think this book deserves the low ratings it has been getting. True, it is not the brilliance of BEE SEASON, but it was a solid effort at a memory novel, harking back to the tween years of girl bullying. Myla Goldberg is sort of connoisseur of memory, constantly finding a way to describe thos...
Oh, this started so well.A woman is suddenly and literally struck by the memory of what actually happened to her childhood friend and races home to spread the truth. No one believes her, and she starts to wonder if she can believe herself.Fantastic, right? The beginning and the epilogue are quite go...
In February, I read Bee Season for my library discussion group. While it wasn't a bad read, it wasn't very memorable.Which is demonstrated by the fact that in finding this in the catalogue, my thought process went something like, Goldberg, Goldberg, that sounds familiar...but where from?Didn't pick ...
Ugh. There was absolutely nothing redeeming about this book. The writing was masturbatory (Goldberg simply spews all over the reader in an attempt to be "literary"; instead it is just overwritten garbage); the story was dumb (girls are mean as kids...this does not traumatize them as adults); the ...