A review by mrbibliography
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

4.0

Finished “The Easter Parade” and it was engaging and utterly depressing. Yates is a beautiful writer. His melancholic and slightly cynical prose makes you feel like an invisible observer in the rooms his characters occupy. The story concerns two sisters, children of divorce, following them and their lives and loves for four decades. They’re not very likable and their life choices are questionable, to say the least. Yet, I still had hope for them. I, perhaps somewhat optimistically, figured that there must be a reason for their misery. Yates must be trying to convey a message. I believe it to be about loving your family for their faults instead of chastising them. This may be a bit maudlin, but I need to take something positive away from this very depressing book!