"""The person I am in my head is so far from the person I am in the world. Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline...
At the beginning of this book we meet Nora Eldridge, the self-confident woman and very angry woman. As she herself tries to comprehend how she came to be the woman she is today Nora takes us back 5 years to the time she met and, literally became part of the Shahid family. At that time Nora was a d...
I found this easy to relate to; the 40-something woman is probably a part of each of us... Or is that all 40-something women who are essentially "the woman upstairs".I like how she found redemption at the end of the novel, but frankly, couldn't see all the appeal to the Shahid family she fell for.
I liked this book a whole lot better half-way through than I did at the end. It's hard to rate because of that. And it's not just because things were good at the middle -- I could already tell that it would probably end badly. I'm glad I read it. The voice of the main character really rang true ...
I strongly disliked this book, so much so that it kind of makes me feel I am developing the same anger issues as the narrator, Nora. Then I think of something else and become normal again. Whew.Anyway. Nora is portrayed from the beginning as an angry and bitter spinster. And she is in her THIRTI...
It started off strong, but became so tedious in the middle. The major character is so unlikeable, but still relatable. Throughout the book I just wanted to shake Nora and tell her to wake up to reality. The big betrayal at the end wasn't at all surprising, but given Nora's lack of insight into other...
"When you're the Woman Upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you best of all."This book reminded me why I haven't given up on literary fiction.The premise sounds like it isn't a lot to work with...
The contemporary mid-life crisis book is not something that normally interests me: in part because my reading focuses more on exotic settings, whether in the distant past, foreign countries and made-up worlds, in part probably because as a 20-something it’s not a storyline I can relate to. But I was...
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