![]() ![]() I finished this a few days ago, and having already forgotten 90 percent of the book, I had to take the struggle bus to Review Town. You’re bothered by use of the “r word.” I don’t know if things weren’t quite as PC back in 2004, but these days it’s in pretty poor taste to toss around that slur as an insult to those you think have diminished mental capacities. ![]() This is a novel about three twin sisters muddling through dramas in their early thirties (including adultery, infertility, and compulsive relationship sabotage), and I wouldn’t want to be friends with any of them. Can any other author cut to the heart of honest human behavior quite as well as Liane Moriarty? Not in my book, which is why I’ve (now) read all of hers. Your favorite kind of writing is easy, yet insightful prose. Much of the plot here takes place over the holidays, so the seasonal reader in me wished I had saved this to read in December. You seek out Christmas books that aren’t overtly Christmasy. ![]() ![]() After reading this one - her first, originally published in 2004 - crisis averted! Having read all of Liane Moriarty’s other novels, it always bothered me that I wouldn’t honestly be able to rave, “I’ve read all your books!” if I ever ran into her at an airport or something. ![]()
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