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A review by inthecommonhours
Marriage and Other Acts of Charity: A Memoir by Kate Braestrup
3.0
I really wanted to love this. Braestrup's Here If You Need Me is now a favorite of mine, and was the book I gave friends because I wanted everyone to have read it.
I can't help wondering if this one was rushed by her publisher/agent to follow the success of the first...it has great moments, great potential, and I can't even say where exactly it fell short.
She's wonderfully honest and still writes so well. But it seemed disjointed to me, and her moments with the young couple preparing for marriage just didn't work for me. They seemed contrived and slightly smug, something I never felt in her first book.
I did enjoy the part where her child's teacher recruits her to present during their unit on sexual health. "Nothing is more important than..." will stay with me.
I can't help wondering if this one was rushed by her publisher/agent to follow the success of the first...it has great moments, great potential, and I can't even say where exactly it fell short.
She's wonderfully honest and still writes so well. But it seemed disjointed to me, and her moments with the young couple preparing for marriage just didn't work for me. They seemed contrived and slightly smug, something I never felt in her first book.
I did enjoy the part where her child's teacher recruits her to present during their unit on sexual health. "Nothing is more important than..." will stay with me.