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A review by lizzielightfoot
In the Country of Women by Susan Straight
3.0
Susan Straight is obviously a good writer, but I guess she’s just not a writer for me. I found this choppy and bratty. “Look at me my daughters are getting PhDs” “Oooh, I’m the most popular mom.” I think she could have written without all of that. Also the choice of writing to her daughters and then telling them what they did was weird.
Again, maybe it was me but I also found it hard to follow the ancestors. By 2/3 of the way through I just gave up. I’d gotten the point by then. I also gave up on the last 60 pages and just skimmed the end.
Straight has had an interesting life, but this was not the book for me.
Again, maybe it was me but I also found it hard to follow the ancestors. By 2/3 of the way through I just gave up. I’d gotten the point by then. I also gave up on the last 60 pages and just skimmed the end.
Straight has had an interesting life, but this was not the book for me.