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A review by who_the_hell_is_jess
Normal Women by Ainslie Hogarth
3.0
Tenley's gonna be mad at me for 3 starring this but I have to let the people know.
Normal Women is about a lady who has a baby who she loves with a man who she increasingly thinks is a bad person. Her husband is a real estate developer who decided to develop his wife's hometown even though she really doesn't want to move back home. The woman, Dani, finds like a wellness brothel in town run by a woman who has hella cult leader energy. The second part is like a murder mystery type beat where the cult leader goes missing and everyone is a suspect. This book is weird but definitely fun and it's peppered with wisdom about motherhood and being someone's wife and shit. Dani is lovably neurotic and I found myself rooting for her even though she's crazy.
The things I didn't really fuck with were that there were a ton of loose ends that never get tied up. It felt like the author had visions of certain characters but not how they tied into the story. I also didn't like that sometimes Dani would go off on tangets about completely unrelated stuff and that she'd do the Margaret Atwood Classic (ending a sentence with a word and then saying that word again as a second sentence for emphasis. Emphasis.) I can't tell if this was actually confusing or if I just have a head cold. The ending also seemed really rushed like I knew it was gonna end in a couple pages but I didn't believe it or see how that could work but it did through the magic of throwing an ending together.
Normal Women is about a lady who has a baby who she loves with a man who she increasingly thinks is a bad person. Her husband is a real estate developer who decided to develop his wife's hometown even though she really doesn't want to move back home. The woman, Dani, finds like a wellness brothel in town run by a woman who has hella cult leader energy. The second part is like a murder mystery type beat where the cult leader goes missing and everyone is a suspect. This book is weird but definitely fun and it's peppered with wisdom about motherhood and being someone's wife and shit. Dani is lovably neurotic and I found myself rooting for her even though she's crazy.
The things I didn't really fuck with were that there were a ton of loose ends that never get tied up. It felt like the author had visions of certain characters but not how they tied into the story. I also didn't like that sometimes Dani would go off on tangets about completely unrelated stuff and that she'd do the Margaret Atwood Classic (ending a sentence with a word and then saying that word again as a second sentence for emphasis. Emphasis.) I can't tell if this was actually confusing or if I just have a head cold. The ending also seemed really rushed like I knew it was gonna end in a couple pages but I didn't believe it or see how that could work but it did through the magic of throwing an ending together.