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A review by bookishcassie
Domestic Apparition by Meg Tuite
5.0
Many of you might think that since this is my dear writer-lady friend, Meg Tuite that I will fake my way through a daunting number of cliche remarks about how fabulous this book is.
We'll you're wrong.
There is no faking about this, this book was amazing.
This book that starts out with a Catholic family, which you of course believe are going to follow all the rules of the Catholic faith since they already followed the child-bearing rules, and then you're thrown into the life of Michelle. We pretty much get her life from young adulthood to the death of her superior, who she comes to love. This book is about strong women who take on whatever roles they damn-well please, even Brenda, who shits in someone's yard out of her own free reign of the neighborhood. A lesbian sister who has been stealing driver's license, and smokes more pot than any of did in college (or maybe just me...what can I say it's the Catholic in me)...
Meg has COMPLETELY fresh metaphors - you aren't going to be locked into cliches. And here I am, the girl who copies down Larry Levis, Joyce Carol Oates and Janet Fitch quotes in my spiral notebook, furiously scribbling down Meg Tuite quotes.
A few of my favorites:
-"Each adult holds a sunken continent of memories inside that always come with the accompaniment of wretched sap music." - I mean come on, we all have these mixed-tapes of memories, I know my ex-boyfriends must have all of mine hidden in their closet break-up box.
-"The true essence of the person will always reveal itself within the sinister monotony of the habitual." Like my mother always said, good love works on the day-to-day.
It's true, I'm Catholic - I quite blare it from the roof tops while also blaring my use of birth control and my stance on letting everyone get married, but the writing about Catholicism isn't what makes this book rich. It's the writing about a true coming-of-age of a young woman. Now, some of you may say, I didn't do those drugs, or I never stole. We'll we all steal lipgloss from the corner store and we all have tried something illegal in our vast past times and Meg is here to tell you that this is what it is to be a woman.
Domestic Apparition is the tale of womanhood, in all its senses, in its most human and raw way. We fight for each other, we fight with each other, and we fight against the useless shit that keeps us down.
I'd recommend this book to my mother, my sister and my best friends (and obviously to you). Buy the book, you can read it in one sitting (it can't be put down), DAMN IT.
We'll you're wrong.
There is no faking about this, this book was amazing.
This book that starts out with a Catholic family, which you of course believe are going to follow all the rules of the Catholic faith since they already followed the child-bearing rules, and then you're thrown into the life of Michelle. We pretty much get her life from young adulthood to the death of her superior, who she comes to love. This book is about strong women who take on whatever roles they damn-well please, even Brenda, who shits in someone's yard out of her own free reign of the neighborhood. A lesbian sister who has been stealing driver's license, and smokes more pot than any of did in college (or maybe just me...what can I say it's the Catholic in me)...
Meg has COMPLETELY fresh metaphors - you aren't going to be locked into cliches. And here I am, the girl who copies down Larry Levis, Joyce Carol Oates and Janet Fitch quotes in my spiral notebook, furiously scribbling down Meg Tuite quotes.
A few of my favorites:
-"Each adult holds a sunken continent of memories inside that always come with the accompaniment of wretched sap music." - I mean come on, we all have these mixed-tapes of memories, I know my ex-boyfriends must have all of mine hidden in their closet break-up box.
-"The true essence of the person will always reveal itself within the sinister monotony of the habitual." Like my mother always said, good love works on the day-to-day.
It's true, I'm Catholic - I quite blare it from the roof tops while also blaring my use of birth control and my stance on letting everyone get married, but the writing about Catholicism isn't what makes this book rich. It's the writing about a true coming-of-age of a young woman. Now, some of you may say, I didn't do those drugs, or I never stole. We'll we all steal lipgloss from the corner store and we all have tried something illegal in our vast past times and Meg is here to tell you that this is what it is to be a woman.
Domestic Apparition is the tale of womanhood, in all its senses, in its most human and raw way. We fight for each other, we fight with each other, and we fight against the useless shit that keeps us down.
I'd recommend this book to my mother, my sister and my best friends (and obviously to you). Buy the book, you can read it in one sitting (it can't be put down), DAMN IT.