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When The World Was Young: A Novel (2014)

by Elizabeth Gaffney(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1400064686 (ISBN13: 9781400064687)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Random House

review 1: This book was a big disappointment. I'd read a couple of good reviews, it's set in a period I'm interested in, and I loved the cover. But the first part lost my interest because of all the junior entomology, the second part because the mother was an idiot, and the third because they were all under-developed, one-dimensional characters that just don't generate much interest or sympathy. The period element is never realized either. The writing is pedestrian and you can follow the whole rather predictable narrative by skimming rather than close reading.
review 2: Another coming of age story in which a young girl sees her mother in a traumatic moment and her best friend, a young African American boy, suffer through the prejudice of others during the days immediatel... morey after the end of World War II. The young girl's grandparents and maid try to shield her from the painful events that surround her life, but in the end, she simply has to confront the circumstances and deal with them. less

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