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eleanormharte 's review for:
Friends and Strangers
by J. Courtney Sullivan
Probably a 3.5 book that I’m rounding down to 3. This is a very character driven novel; things happen but the bulk of the novel is spent inside the characters’ heads. It reminds me of a mix of Such a Fun Age and The Female Persuasion - a young woman at a women's college becomes a nanny for a woman who recently moved from Brooklyn, and the two become close, forming a friendship beyond employee and employer.
It's about the stories we tell ourselves about people we know, and about how we don't always know them as well as we think we do. It reminded me that we shouldn't idolize people. There's a lot of themes here, and some of them are carried through to the end, but some of them feel like they get dropped. It was alright - a slow read but lots to think about.
It's about the stories we tell ourselves about people we know, and about how we don't always know them as well as we think we do. It reminded me that we shouldn't idolize people. There's a lot of themes here, and some of them are carried through to the end, but some of them feel like they get dropped. It was alright - a slow read but lots to think about.