How many middle class suburban lives can one secret destroy?
review
I wanted to like this book way more than I actually did. I really enjoyed the writing style and the vocabulary and everything about it save for the characters. I hated them all, well I didn't "hate" them but I had issues with each and every one of them. The husband was a write off for me, one action destroyed any sympathy I may have had. The wife was terribly weak and we all know that weak characters drive me up the wall with hate. I sympathized a bit with Caroline and thought she was an all right character but something about the way she was written annoyed me a bit. The author seems to fail at mixing the characters personalities with a dash of good and a dash of bad instead leaving them all a bit flat. I did, however, really enjoy the way the author depicted depression and hopelessness, the language she used was spot on imo, just not the characters she imprinted it all on to. I recommend this book to anyone who doesn't have the same issues with me as to character weaknesses, or to people who were actually alive in 1964 to whom the premise may be more applicable (getting rid of -institutionalizing from birth- a child with downs syndrome).
5/10
"You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down."
"Either things grow and change or they die."
"Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch."
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