Books by Meg Waite Clayton
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review 1: I found this very difficult to read. What I found particularly disconcerting is how the narrator grapples with her identity. Hope's (Asha's) mother is white and her father is from India. How do terms like mulatto, quadroon, octoroon even make it into a book like this?? And su...
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review 1: I wish I had sisters like this. These delightful women, so different from each other, all facing different challenges, were a delight to meet. Thirty-five years after they first found each other in a playground, Frankie looks back at the struggles they experienced as young wives...
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review 1: If people believe that "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is a slow-starter, I submit this as evidence of a truly slow-starting book. I think the fact that I read it on my phone contributed to confusion, and thus general annoyance with the book. I have to believe that the real d...
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review 1: Not as good as Wednesday Sisters (imho). Mostly because it was more confusing to read. The diary entries were hard to read and honestly, I thought the conversations with Bea were a little weird. I usually like multiple timelines and multiple points of view, but the first-person...
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review 1: I really wanted to like this book. It's about friendship, the 60's and 70's, motherhood and marriage, and writing. What's not to like? Well, for one thing, a book that tried too hard to promote a point of view (feminism) with somewhat wooden, cookie cutter characters and very ...