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This is the story of the Bramble family--Margaret, Max, and Edie--three adult siblings careening through wildly different byways of adult life. Margaret, mother of three, drowning in a sea of runny noses and lost mittens, is a nurturer with a sense of humor, a witty woman at wits' end, about to take her ailing father into the tumult and chaos of her already overcrowded home. Edie, her younger sister, is a barely recognizable version of Margaret's former self--young, single, clicking smartly down city streets in good shoes, but struggling mightily beyond her sister's vision to anchor her desultory, and intensely solitary, life. Max, newly married, newly a father, is buckling under the weight of new responsibilities. Over the course of one critical season, a long-hidden secret will be revealed, remaking each of them, and all they thought they knew about one another and about themselves.--From publisher description.… (altro)
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This is the story of the Bramble family Margaret, Max, and Edie three adult siblings careening through wildly different byways of adult life. Margaret, mother of three, drowning in a sea of runny noses and lost mittens, is a nurturer with a sense of humor, a witty woman at wits end, about to take her ailing father into the tumult and chaos of her already overcrowded home. Edie, her younger sister, is a barely recognizable version of Margaret' s former self young, single, clicking smartly down city streets in good shoes, but struggling mightily beyond her sister's vision to anchor her desultory, and intensely solitary, life. Max, newly married, newly a father, is buckling under the weight of new responsibilities. Over the course of one critical season, a long hidden secret will be revealed, remaking each of them, and all they thought they knew about one another and about themselves.
Eliza Minot is a talented writer, but her story of the Bramble family just didn't capture my interest. Not her fault; maybe I've read too many novels about multi-generational family life, or am too occupied living a version of this story right now. It wasn't a book for me, but there are many readers who would enjoy Ms. Minot's well-crafted chronicle. ( )
The writing was overly descriptive and too wordy for my taste, but I did like the characters and wanted to trudge through the book in order to find out what happened to them. The ending was stupid, though. Not sure why the story couldn't just have been about the Bramble family coming to grips with the fact that Gramps is dying of cancer, instead of also throwing in the part about the "family secret." The latter was revealed too close to the end of the book to be a real part of the story, and seemed very contrived.
Side note: Margaret's kids are either exceptionally brilliant, or written to be too mature for their stated ages of 6, 5 and 3. ( )
I liked this book. Magaret was very real, they way she thought/felt/acted about her kids. I also liked how the story didn't hit you over the head, it just kind of meandered. which bothered me in some ways too. And finally a book where the married people actually love each other, instead of affairs and unfulfilled lives. ( )
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To infinity, and beyond! --Buzz Lightyear
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For Eric
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Let's keep him," said Florence. They were about to sign the lease. "He looks like he likes it here."
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The last thing she wants is for one of her children to turn out as a judgmental rude person. Well, the last thing she wants is nuclear holocaust. And after that, the next-to-last thing she wants is for another person in her family to die. And after that, a major terrorist biological attack, or dirty bomb, poisoned water, or whatever, in nearby New York City, but close to the top of the last-thing-she-wants list is for one of her kids to turn out to be a jerk.
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She can hear one of her kids calling her from the back door -- Is it Stephen? Is it Sarah? -- calling, "Mom? Are you all right, Mom? Mom? Mom? What are you doing?"
This is the story of the Bramble family--Margaret, Max, and Edie--three adult siblings careening through wildly different byways of adult life. Margaret, mother of three, drowning in a sea of runny noses and lost mittens, is a nurturer with a sense of humor, a witty woman at wits' end, about to take her ailing father into the tumult and chaos of her already overcrowded home. Edie, her younger sister, is a barely recognizable version of Margaret's former self--young, single, clicking smartly down city streets in good shoes, but struggling mightily beyond her sister's vision to anchor her desultory, and intensely solitary, life. Max, newly married, newly a father, is buckling under the weight of new responsibilities. Over the course of one critical season, a long-hidden secret will be revealed, remaking each of them, and all they thought they knew about one another and about themselves.--From publisher description.
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This is the story of the Bramble family Margaret, Max, and Edie three adult siblings careening through wildly different byways of adult life. Margaret, mother of three, drowning in a sea of runny noses and lost mittens, is a nurturer with a sense of humor, a witty woman at wits end, about to take her ailing father into the tumult and chaos of her already overcrowded home. Edie, her younger sister, is a barely recognizable version of Margaret' s former self young, single, clicking smartly down city streets in good shoes, but struggling mightily beyond her sister's vision to anchor her desultory, and intensely solitary, life. Max, newly married, newly a father, is buckling under the weight of new responsibilities. Over the course of one critical season, a long hidden secret will be revealed, remaking each of them, and all they thought they knew about one another and about themselves.