A review by dashausfrau
Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg

4.0

Extremely impressed with how well this relatively short book captures the tone of the 50s, which so much colored the rest of the century. I love how the protagonist's friend - because neighbor kids were automatically friends, even if they didn't have much in common - talks just like a magazine & follows beauty advice verbatim.

The story addresses the nature of attachment, the lightness / burden of childhood, the serious / not spoken of problems of a family unit.