Did not like it....A typical "I feel sorry for me. Look at all the years I have wasted" book
Basically as the main character approaches her 40th birthday she physically starts to disappear...then the book spending a great deal of time proving that she has never developed her own identity and life, as she is always thinking and talking about her friende, mother, and former lover turned friend. Basically the book's theme is that as a single woman approaches middle age without having married or given birth to a child the American Culture views her as "invisible" as a non person. I believe everyone builds their own life, and can start a new life at any time.
Basically as the main character approaches her 40th birthday she physically starts to disappear...then the book spending a great deal of time proving that she has never developed her own identity and life, as she is always thinking and talking about her friende, mother, and former lover turned friend. Basically the book's theme is that as a single woman approaches middle age without having married or given birth to a child the American Culture views her as "invisible" as a non person. I believe everyone builds their own life, and can start a new life at any time.
This is a very unusual book. I am glad I read it, but not crazy about it. It has practically no plot and consists more of bits from the lives of the main character, her lover and her friends. There are many places in it where people say things or think things that are obviously meant to be significant, but I had no idea what the author was getting at; that was irritating.
On the plus side, the book is packed with insightful statements about how women feel, how they are different from men, and their misgivings as they face life over forty in American society. It also deserves credit for being one of the very few books written mainly in the present tense that I could tolerate reading.
On the plus side, the book is packed with insightful statements about how women feel, how they are different from men, and their misgivings as they face life over forty in American society. It also deserves credit for being one of the very few books written mainly in the present tense that I could tolerate reading.
I liked this a lot. Quirky characters, interesting story line, this was one that I found easy to read at bedtime, always a plus!
