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Being Lara: A Novel (2012)

by Lola Jaye(Favorite Author)

3.27 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062069349 (ISBN13: 9780062069344)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

William Morrow Paperbacks

review 1: Lara is eight years old when she discovers that she is adopted. She has always felt out of place, however. She always struggled with issues of somehow being different, looking different, and is used to holding herself in check.Upon her 30th birthday, she finally meets her birth mother, and feels an immediate connection. Though she fights this feeling, she feels herself drawn in by her biological mother. Lara is forced to reconcile her life as an adopted child.As we see Lara come to terms with who she is, we also see her come to understand both of the important women in her life, her mothers. As she learns about her past and her mothers, she learns she must allow herself to open up, in order to find understanding, peace, embrace who she is and who she is to become.This emot... moreional and interesting novel looks at adoption from three distinct women’s viewpoints: daughter, biological mother, and adoptive mother. It is a journey of self-discovery, and also of motherhood.
review 2: I really liked this book. I liked the story and the characters. For some reason, though, it was a really slow read for me. I'm not sure why. I was interested in where the story was going and I definitely wanted to know what happened in the end, but something about the characters didnt draw me in. I think that, in the way that the main character held herself back from everyone in the whole story, something was held back in the telling of the story that prevented me from really connecting to it. Definitely worth reading, though. A good book club book! less

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