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A review by nancf
Maggie-Now by Betty Smith
3.0
While this is not my favorite Betty Smith novel, I did enjoy Maggie-Now. As with Smith's other novels, this is the story of a family in Brooklyn. It actually starts in Ireland with the carefree Patrick Moore and his young girlfriend, Maggie Rose Shawn. Threatened by Maggie Rose's American policeman brother, Patrick leaves town for America. After an inauspicious beginning, the hapless Pat ends up marrying his boss's daughter, Mary. Maggie-Now is their daughter. Maggie-Now does not have an easy life. But she makes the best of it, including her atypical marriage to Claude Bassett.
The story meandered at times, but one can't help like and root for Maggie-Now as she navigates her small life. All the characters are so well-formed.
"I recall that he said a young man wanting to change the world is a reformer; a middle-aged man who would do the same is a meddler. But when an old man tries it, he's an eccentric and a fool." (368)
The story meandered at times, but one can't help like and root for Maggie-Now as she navigates her small life. All the characters are so well-formed.
"I recall that he said a young man wanting to change the world is a reformer; a middle-aged man who would do the same is a meddler. But when an old man tries it, he's an eccentric and a fool." (368)