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Sto caricando le informazioni... My Sister from the Black Lagoon : A Novel of My Lifedi Laurie Fox
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. So life’s too short for tiresome reads, so I’ll be quick. Confusingly marketed as an “autobiographical novel”, My Sister from the Black Lagoon starts out promisingly as Laurie Fox/Lorna Person tells of growing up in 50s/60s Southern California with her “crazy” sister Lonnie—who shouts colorful murder threats, fears toast with sharp edges, cares for a veritable menagerie of reptiles, and terrorizes babysitters, but has also, Lorna thinks, the sweetest insides of anyone she knows. It’s both comically weird and weirdly real how this early passage paints the dysfunction that is the status quo from the family members’ attempts to cope: be it weekly therapy (for stressed stay-at-home mom), a consuming music hobby (for short-tempered TV-business dad), or a frightening elaborate fantasy life (for Lorna herself). But soon the novel shifts from the focus on her sister and their family life into Lorna’s struggles growing up. It’s all typical obnoxious stuff, really, like why don’t I have more friends and first love angst and won’t I ever be a famous actress and my parents have a loveless 50s marriage and it was the 60s so there was lots of weed—particular emphasis on the I was just so tragically born as a person who feels too much all of which is terribly dull, predictable, and, given the claim of autobiographical basis, frankly seems like mega-self-absorption. At about the point about where Lorna says that her dates with her first boyfriend (the most truthful person on the planet) were all cry session in which he really listened to the truly deep pain within her (a development sans any irony), I figured I'd cut my losses. An interesting story about how mental illness impacts not only the individual but also the family. The story is set in the 1950's - 1970's in Burbank California. Lonnie is the older sister with the mental illness. Lorna is her younger sister and the story centers around her and how she grew up and learned to ignore or accept aspects of her sister. The characters of the mother and father were very interesting in that they had the "typical" male/female roles established but when it came to being the strong one in the family the father had the brute strength but not the emotional ability to handle his daughters. There were parts of the story that dragged on and didn't add much to furthering the story line, overall it was a decent read and an interesting story. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"I was born into a mentally ill family. My sister was the officially crazy one, but really we were all nuts." So begins My Sister from the Black Lagoon, Laurie Fox's incandescent novel of growing up absurd. Lorna Person's tale is wrested from the shadows cast by her sister, Lonnie, whose rages command the full attention of her parents. Their San Fernando Valley household is off-key and out of kilter, a place where Lonnie sees evil in the morning toast and runs into the Burbank hills to join the animals that seem more like her kin. Lorna, on the other hand, is an acutely sensitive girl who can't relate to Barbie. "Could Barbie feel sorrow? Could Barbie understand what it's like to be plump, lonely, Jewish?" My Sister from the Black Lagoon is a wisecracked bell jar, a heartbreaking study of sane and crazy. Laurie Fox's delightful voice is knowing yet wide-eyed, lyrical, and witty. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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I would have given it more stats and I wanted to but I did not take much from this book other than a hazy glimpse of my long ago childhood. The destiny of the mentally ill sister causes me great concern. ( )