By: Lauren Fox
Libby audiobook 7 hours
Read by: Natasha Soudek
Published: 2021
Genre: Historical fiction
This book sounded promising, but after investing two and a half hours in listening, I decided to call it quits. I don't usually blog about a book I didn't finish, but I think my quick notes show my confusion.
Julius and Clara (?) - daughter Annalisa - 15 y.o. / 18 y.o.
Max ("mocks") and Katerina and their 7 year old . . . killed in Auschwitz (Annalisa reads about them sixty years after . . . )
Ugh! Time bouncing around too much!
"Secret society of the life givers" and "sisterhood of the swollen ankles"
Annalisa noticing other parents and children once she gets pregnant
Sudden switch to Claire! And Ruth? Who are these people? Why are we suddenly in the United States?
Claire / weddings / mothers and daughters
"The house you grew up in was your psyche's excretions. . . . "
This is where I gave up. We've learned a lot about Clara and her relationship with her daughter Annalisa . . . and Annalisa's infatuation with Max, then her marriage to the shoe salesman. Then as she is becoming a mother, there is an abrupt change of protagonist. From reading the book's blurb, I can see where this is going, but I have no more patience for it. There's nothing to indicate that switches in time and place are being made. It's too chaotic to jump around in time.
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