catajohn 's review for:

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

5.0

emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Being in a place where the weather did not reflect my mood. I was raining; the sun mocked my sadness.

Yooo, this writing, loved it.
This is the story of Lillian, 85 yo, who takes a walk through New York but also through her life. It happens on the New Year's eve of 1985 and while she walks through a changing city she start reminiscing her life. Not the whole story happens in the past, there are many events that happen on her walk and it shows how dynamic city life is and why she loved the city so much.

Lillian's character is amazing, super smart and witty and ahead of her time. Like, she was having a talk with her boss about a raise and she was not happy with the fact that men earn more than women (still true) and her boss said that the men have a family to feed. And her reply was "Nobody asked these fellow salaries to reproduce themselves". Lmaoooo

I also liked how even in 1985 she felt that media will eventually hurt social life by seeing how people would go to bars to watch TV instead of talking to each other.

And there is Max, the love of her life, a man that made her change her mind about the marriage life, and a man who changed her life for the best, at least for a while. Eventually the same man would destroy her. So yea, he was a POS.

Anyway, I liked this a lot. 5/5 !!!