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I was a so-so fan of J. Courtney Sullivan’s Commencement, but was eager to read Maine—the story of several generations of dysfunctional family members converging on a summer house in coastal Maine.
Given my previous experience with Commencement, I decided against purchasing the book and instead added my name to the very long wait list at the library. A couple weeks later, I picked it up and read it in two nights. Despite the flaws in Maine (some of which are similar to the flaws I found in Commencement), it’s still an entertaining, page-turning story with circumstances and conversations in the context of family drama that almost everyone can find some common ground in.
Like Commencement, I felt a bit cheated by Maine. I was drawn in, enjoying the characters (some of which were more skillfully rounded out than others) and their various dramas, but was left hanging at the end. Maybe I’m an idealist and I want a more cut-and-dry ending to a story like this, but there were threads in the story that appeared and then disappeared, never to return or be resolved.
I don’t want to discourage you from reading this, as it it was an enjoyable way for me to pass a few hours of time, but I’d recommend you follow in my footsteps and try to procure this from a local library if you’d like to satisfy your curiosity. Like Commencement, it’s not worth owning.
Given my previous experience with Commencement, I decided against purchasing the book and instead added my name to the very long wait list at the library. A couple weeks later, I picked it up and read it in two nights. Despite the flaws in Maine (some of which are similar to the flaws I found in Commencement), it’s still an entertaining, page-turning story with circumstances and conversations in the context of family drama that almost everyone can find some common ground in.
Like Commencement, I felt a bit cheated by Maine. I was drawn in, enjoying the characters (some of which were more skillfully rounded out than others) and their various dramas, but was left hanging at the end. Maybe I’m an idealist and I want a more cut-and-dry ending to a story like this, but there were threads in the story that appeared and then disappeared, never to return or be resolved.
I don’t want to discourage you from reading this, as it it was an enjoyable way for me to pass a few hours of time, but I’d recommend you follow in my footsteps and try to procure this from a local library if you’d like to satisfy your curiosity. Like Commencement, it’s not worth owning.