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A review by yangyvonne
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
3.0
A story of 17 year old Henry Shaw, who through the email account he has set-up for his mother, learns she is having an affair. He tracks the affair over the year before he leaves for college and wrestles with his feelings about it and the mother he is so close to. Th sub-plot deals with Elvira, his 13 year old sister who is obsessed with Civil War reenactment.
Hamilton makes interesting use of the sub-plot to move the story along. The major flaw, for me, was how little Henry did and how much he seemed to understand what his mother was doing - beyond the reality of a 17 year old. There were a lot of unnecessary "gaps/mysteries" in the story too, which detracted from the basically endearing tale.
Hamilton makes interesting use of the sub-plot to move the story along. The major flaw, for me, was how little Henry did and how much he seemed to understand what his mother was doing - beyond the reality of a 17 year old. There were a lot of unnecessary "gaps/mysteries" in the story too, which detracted from the basically endearing tale.