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holly_ed_ 's review for:
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
by Melissa Bank
Admittedly when this was chosen for our Whatsapp book club, I thought it would be superficial ‘chick lit’ (urgh, sorry feminism, but I can’t think of a better term) that I’d race through in one sitting. I did devour it, but because these loosely interwoven stories are sharp, waspish, witty, perceptive and moving.
It has some impossibly cool teenagers and suave one-liners, but that seemed to be part of the point for me, as the book is set in the literary world of editors and lunches and bon vivants. The stories roll on, all amusing like a Dorothy Parker piece, and then suddenly you get a gem such as this, describing the narrator’s older brother bringing a girlfriend to the family home for the first time: “I thought maybe she’d look older than Henry, but it was Henry who looked older than Henry.” Perfect.
It has some impossibly cool teenagers and suave one-liners, but that seemed to be part of the point for me, as the book is set in the literary world of editors and lunches and bon vivants. The stories roll on, all amusing like a Dorothy Parker piece, and then suddenly you get a gem such as this, describing the narrator’s older brother bringing a girlfriend to the family home for the first time: “I thought maybe she’d look older than Henry, but it was Henry who looked older than Henry.” Perfect.