Fran Hawthorne
Autore di Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
Sull'Autore
Award-winning journalist Fran Hawthorne has been a writer or editor at Fortune, BusinessWeek, Institutional Investor, and other publications. She is the author of three books on health care and investing, including Inside the FDA and Pension Dumping. She lives with her family in New York City.
Fonte dell'immagine: (C) Leonard Yakir
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- Opere
- 8
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- 189
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- #115,306
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- 3.2
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- 12
- ISBN
- 18
Miranda Isaac seems to have the perfect life. She gets along with her family, her fiancé, Russ, is going after his dream job, and she's getting married soon. But all of that unwinds when Russ Steinmann's job requests security clearance of Miranda and her family. Miranda's secret about helping her friend kidnap her young child comes out, which is something she never told Russ. She tries to explain that she was helping her friend Ronit out of good intentions - her husband was abusive and trying to take their child away from them. But does that make everything right? Not so much.
In Miranda's pursuit of fixing her relationship, things go off the rails. Her life begins to spiral and she learns things about herself and her family that she would have never imagined to be true.
This book will pull at your heartstrings! There's heartbreak, there's compassion, and there's so much empathy in a book like this. Fran Hawthorne has crafted a book that reads so smoothly and easily, but also makes you want to shake the characters by their shoulders as if they are a good friend and yell at them. The book battles between what's right and ethics, which is also very interesting. At times, you know what is going on isn't the right path by society's standards but it feels right by the heart. You might even question if you would follow the same actions yourself (even if some of them aren't bright decisions). Would you hide big secrets from your family to protect them? When is the right time to tell them those big secrets? How might it affect your relationship? This book brings those questions up and does its best to show one of many opportunities for how it could go oh so utterly wrong.
We all have secrets, that's for certain. And this book welcomes us into Miranda's. Miranda feels very real and I just want to give her a hug. Fran made her very relatable, almost as if she is my friend or my neighbour. Her Mother Judith is also very relatable when you begin to read more about her as well. The book really shows how relationships can ebb and flow, and change over time. Then throw in Russ and his family (and legacy), and the spider web builds.
Also, the title is spot on. It really highlights quite a few characters in this story and things they probably should have told everyone else at some point.
Overall, this is truly a mesmerizing novel. It's a great contemporary read that is easy to read but will also bring some feels out.
Five out of five stars.
I received this book for free from the author, Fran Hawthorne, in exchange for an honest review.… (altro)