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A Family Matter
by Claire Lynch
This book makes a part of your soul ache.
It’s startlingly realistic, refreshingly honest, and yet could be the life of the person who picked up only milk in the line ahead of you at the grocery store.
I love books that feel like you’ve only gotten a glimpse into someone’s life - those that feel like you’ve only gotten found a stack of letters written by the person in an old trunk at an antique store. You’re left with questions and things you wish you could say, but the time has passed and the words are bitten back on your tongue. You swallow down the feelings you have because the story is over and you’re not the one involved and at the end of the day, isn’t it just how life goes?
“Sometimes Maggie has to fight the urge to say to this boy who knows next to nothing, yes, fine. You have a point. I agree, actually. There ought to be more to life than washing machines and emails and remembering to put out the recycling on the right day. But life is also this. It is all of this.”
It’s startlingly realistic, refreshingly honest, and yet could be the life of the person who picked up only milk in the line ahead of you at the grocery store.
I love books that feel like you’ve only gotten a glimpse into someone’s life - those that feel like you’ve only gotten found a stack of letters written by the person in an old trunk at an antique store. You’re left with questions and things you wish you could say, but the time has passed and the words are bitten back on your tongue. You swallow down the feelings you have because the story is over and you’re not the one involved and at the end of the day, isn’t it just how life goes?
“Sometimes Maggie has to fight the urge to say to this boy who knows next to nothing, yes, fine. You have a point. I agree, actually. There ought to be more to life than washing machines and emails and remembering to put out the recycling on the right day. But life is also this. It is all of this.”