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Cambridge (2014)

by Susanna Kaysen(Favorite Author)

3.12 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0385350252 (ISBN13: 9780385350259)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Knopf

review 1: This memoir of childhood is salty and clever. Susanna Kaysen (she wrote "Girl, Interrupted") was a precocious, bratty and negative child who had huge feelings and observed everything in sharp focus. (Or at least the adult version of her thinks she did.) Her family moved from Cambridge, MA to European cities several times, leading ther to fetishize Cambridge as "Home" until it can't take it anymore. Again this child was a defensive know it all, superior and remote. If the writing weren't so acerbic and zesty I'd have given up on the book early on.
review 2: I loved how the author realistically conveyed the mind of a child - although in my experience this mind was more like a 2nd/middle child mind than an oldest mind. However, it was well done. I did not like t... morehe ending though. There was so much conflict inside the character's head and I do no feel the author wrapped it up well. I would rather have been left hanging than left with an overly simplified ending. less

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