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rce59 's review for:
Friends and Strangers
by J. Courtney Sullivan
This book was really trying to be a lot of things, and I’m not sure it really achieve that. Part college book, part about new motherhood, along with the critique of capitalism in the United States, friendships, class, and social relations, it was just trying to do a lot of things. It switches between the two perspectives of Elisabeth, the mother, and Sam, her babysitter, as they both made bad choices, and try to justify them constantly. So many things in the story we’re not ever clarified or wrapped up, like Elisabeth’s relationship with her sister and her lies to her husband, and his whole solar powered grill?
I just feel like there were a lot of ideas, that never really went anywhere. But all that said, and done, it was a fairly enjoyable book to read.
I just feel like there were a lot of ideas, that never really went anywhere. But all that said, and done, it was a fairly enjoyable book to read.