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Autobiography Of Us A Novel By Aria Beth Sloes (2000)

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review 1: Wow. I really hated this book. I liked the first few chapters but it just didn't gel for me. The main character/narrator seemed okay, but I have *no* idea why she was friends with Alex b/c Alex seemed to be not a good friend at ALL. I mean, it was fine for when she was 15, but by the time she was in college, Alex was miserable and they didm' know each other at all. That is where I got really bored, started skimming and then put it down.
review 2: The narrator of this novel is recording the story of her life for her daughter. The arc of the story runs from high school in Pasadena in 1958 to young motherhood in New York in the mid 1970s. The theme that seems to connect the characters is the deleterious impact of dead dreams and shallow lives on the financi... moreally comfortable women of that era. This seems to want to explore the relationships between women. But, rather than the portrait of mutually supportive friendship, we are given mother-daughter, friend-friend connections that isolate. There is several intense moments, some raw passages of self-awareness. But, there are also pieces where the dots did not feel connected, situations with explosive potential that seem to disappear too easily, expressions of tremendous rage, frustration, self-destruction that are not given adequate build up. less

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