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A review by sde
Small World by Laura Zigman
4.0
After reading this, I realized that it is an unusual book that revolves around the relationship between two adult siblings. Why is that when siblings can be the most important people in our lives? I liked this outlook, and I also enjoyed the setting in a part of the world - near the end of the Red Line in Boston - where I lived near for many years, but it was long ago. So part of my enjoyment of this book was nostalgia. I do think, though, that younger readers may not understand the two main characters as well. They had some decidedly middle aged traits.
The women's mother seemed over the top. Of course she would be spending a lot more time and energy on her disabled daughter, but what she expected of the other two daughter and how she shut them out seemed extreme. I wonder if the author meant the reader to interpret this depiction as coming through the girls' eyes and not how it really was.
The poems made from excerpts from a NextDoor type website were fun, and now I wonder if I will ever read the postings in real life the same, or if I will constantly be trying to figure out which ones could be made into a poem.
The women's mother seemed over the top. Of course she would be spending a lot more time and energy on her disabled daughter, but what she expected of the other two daughter and how she shut them out seemed extreme. I wonder if the author meant the reader to interpret this depiction as coming through the girls' eyes and not how it really was.
The poems made from excerpts from a NextDoor type website were fun, and now I wonder if I will ever read the postings in real life the same, or if I will constantly be trying to figure out which ones could be made into a poem.