![]() ![]() There are great life lessons here, involving women’s issues, best friends turning traitorous, parents, birth, death, sex, marriage, beginnings and ends. The rules are changing, and it is disconcerting. I so remember the feelings this young girl has, so mixed, and trying to change some days, and trying not to, on other days. The story takes place during one summer, and Maggie is in the awkward, frightening time of a girl’s life where she feels her world is about to change-she is not a girl, but not grown, and she, and her family, and her extended family are going to go through some changes. She is part of a large Irish family, with a domineering patriarch, except for her own mother, Connie, who is Italian and feels she is an outsider. It takes place in the late 60’s, the main character, Maggie, is almost 13, so we are similar in age. Full disclosure though-Anna Quindlen is one of my favorite authors, and if she decided to re-write the dictionary, I would read every single word. ![]() ![]() I do not understand the low ratings on this wonderful book. ![]()
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