The first-person plural narration might have been my favorite part of this novel. It was perfectly done and quite impressive, if you ask me.Why did I pick this book up in the first place? The quote on the cover made me do it: “See, we love each other. We just don't like each other very much.” Tha...
3.5 for a nice strong finish. Wrapped things up rather nicely. Really wanted to like this more than I did. Good but not great. Looking forward to what her next book looks like.
3.5 for a nice strong finish. Wrapped things up rather nicely. Really wanted to like this more than I did. Good but not great. Looking forward to what her next book looks like.
I loved this satisfying, hopeful, intelligent book from start to finish. It’s a sort of belated coming of age story about three twenty-something sisters who grew up in the small college town where their father is employed as a Shakespeare scholar. Their mother has just been diagnosed with cancer and...
Ok book - didn't hold my attention very well and took forever for me to finish. The oldest sister got on my last nerve, but I liked all of the storylines between the sisters and was happy the way it ended.
What a beautiful story! Since leaving home after high school, the 3 sisters (all named after characters from Shakespeare plays) have all been running from something that they can’t seem to name. Rose (Rosalind) is the typical eldest child. She feels a deep sense of responsibility to take care of eve...
Having spent a good chunk of my adult life as an appendage to academia (grad-student spouse in a college town, then wife of a faculty member at a small college in a mid-sized city), I still tend to be drawn to fiction set in that world. The three Andreas sisters grew up as daughters of a Shakespeare...
Brown exquisitely captured the easy fall-back into old family dynamics upon returning home as an adult, as well as the floundering sense of failure we can feel in our late twenties/early thirties when we realize life has not turned out how we'd pictured it would be. Optimistically, in changing our p...
I read this on a whim without even bothering to read the blurb in its entirety (A pretty cover gets me all the time… well, that and the continuous marketing.) The farthest I got into said blurb was that the characters had been named after some of Shakespeare’s female characters. From this I (mistake...
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