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Family Family
by Laurie Frankel
Perfection. The main character is an actress and a single mother. There are lots of very poignant lines about family and parenting. I wish I had an e copy so I could have highlighted the sh*" out of it. This one especially.
"There was no workshopping with parenting. You said the wrong thing, and you couldn't go back and give it a different read, try it again smiling instead of glowering, gently instead of shouting, with a deep breath before delivery. You had to live with your first read, even though it was often appalling. There was no rehearsal, either. You were live onstage from the moment you got the part. There was no curtain call. There wasn't even an intermission. It was just an endless, endless dance number, and never mind you couldn't sing, you had to sing anyway. There was no playing to your strengths with motherhood. There was no understudy nor, in her case, even a scene partner let alone a director. It was just you, monologizing unscripted to an unruly audience until you die."
For all the adopted kids and mamas and daddy's out there. Definitely read this one. " More is more. Family doesn't take away from family. Family begets family. That's how family works."
I just re read this book and it was outstanding again! So many quotable passages. I got an ebook so I could highlight it and I sure did. I love this book!
"There was no workshopping with parenting. You said the wrong thing, and you couldn't go back and give it a different read, try it again smiling instead of glowering, gently instead of shouting, with a deep breath before delivery. You had to live with your first read, even though it was often appalling. There was no rehearsal, either. You were live onstage from the moment you got the part. There was no curtain call. There wasn't even an intermission. It was just an endless, endless dance number, and never mind you couldn't sing, you had to sing anyway. There was no playing to your strengths with motherhood. There was no understudy nor, in her case, even a scene partner let alone a director. It was just you, monologizing unscripted to an unruly audience until you die."
For all the adopted kids and mamas and daddy's out there. Definitely read this one. " More is more. Family doesn't take away from family. Family begets family. That's how family works."
I just re read this book and it was outstanding again! So many quotable passages. I got an ebook so I could highlight it and I sure did. I love this book!