checha15 's review for:

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

4.0

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This was a very sweet story. It reads like a memoir mixed in to a story of an elderly woman walking around Manhattan. I enjoyed how the author used her own poetic background to add a poetic voice to Lilian as she narrated her story. Lilian Boxfish was in advertising, but also a poet. You can hear that in how she interacts with the other characters in the book as well as in the way she describes her surroundings.

I also enjoyed the various points in her life she reflects on. The order in which she reveals her life was well done. The first story gives a good overview of how Lilian presents herself to the world, but as you gone, you start peeling back the layers to learn who she really is.