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Commencement
by J. Courtney Sullivan
The first part of the books read like a fabulous sequel to Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep, focusing on the college years and beyond. Any women's college graduate of the last couple of decades will recognize many familiar stereotypes and be drawn into the sharp Smith College characters, plot, and setting.
The second half of the book stretches one of the character's subplots too far, with events "ripped from the headlines" in this otherwise smart, thoughtful novel about four young women's lives and friendships. The two halves of the book never came together in quite the right way, and yet I just couldn't stop reading.
On the whole, Commencement makes for delightful summer reading--more complex and feminist than your average beach read.
The second half of the book stretches one of the character's subplots too far, with events "ripped from the headlines" in this otherwise smart, thoughtful novel about four young women's lives and friendships. The two halves of the book never came together in quite the right way, and yet I just couldn't stop reading.
On the whole, Commencement makes for delightful summer reading--more complex and feminist than your average beach read.