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A review by debnanceatreaderbuzz
A Family Daughter by Maile Meloy
4.0
A sign of a good book: You start out warming to the book, but you grow to love the book more and more and more as you go along. That's the case for me with this book. I grew to love the characters so much that I did not want to get to the end.
My favorite thing about this book (and, oddly, it's a thing that irritated me at first) is the author's way of telling a story, Hemingway-esque, very objectively, almost like Meloy is looking down on the whole story from above and just telling what she sees. What's true and what's made up in a book...this was a fun theme in the book. Abby was a fascinating character, but I also liked her uncle and Margot. I think there are probably a lot of us Margots among us readers.
No easy answers, no pat endings...Meloy perfectly reflects the ambiguity of our modern world.
Wonderful book. I'm very happy to have read this one. It's definitely one for the reading groups who like to deal with psychological conflict.
My favorite thing about this book (and, oddly, it's a thing that irritated me at first) is the author's way of telling a story, Hemingway-esque, very objectively, almost like Meloy is looking down on the whole story from above and just telling what she sees. What's true and what's made up in a book...this was a fun theme in the book. Abby was a fascinating character, but I also liked her uncle and Margot. I think there are probably a lot of us Margots among us readers.
No easy answers, no pat endings...Meloy perfectly reflects the ambiguity of our modern world.
Wonderful book. I'm very happy to have read this one. It's definitely one for the reading groups who like to deal with psychological conflict.