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A review by dawnmdavison
Surrender, Dorothy by Meg Wolitzer
2.0
Four old friends take a month every summer to escape NYC and hang out at the beach. Who are these people who can take a month of vacation every summer? Conveniently, one is a public school teacher, one is a playwright, one is a perpetual student, and the other is an attorney on maternity leave (don't ask me how she managed other summers).
The first night one of them dies in a car accident. They stay on for the rest of the month and start the grieving process. The dead girl's mother joins the and she also begins the grieving process.
Up until the last two chapters, I thought the book was fine. The dead girl wasn't perfect, but she was missed. Then in the second to last chapter, the author inexplicably engineers a group meltdown which exposes all of the dead girl's secrets. Then she fixes it all in the last chapter. I don't know what Wolitzer's experiences of grieving have been, but mine have not resembled that in the least.
It was a mediocre book.
The first night one of them dies in a car accident. They stay on for the rest of the month and start the grieving process. The dead girl's mother joins the and she also begins the grieving process.
Up until the last two chapters, I thought the book was fine. The dead girl wasn't perfect, but she was missed. Then in the second to last chapter, the author inexplicably engineers a group meltdown which exposes all of the dead girl's secrets. Then she fixes it all in the last chapter. I don't know what Wolitzer's experiences of grieving have been, but mine have not resembled that in the least.
It was a mediocre book.