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    The shorter viewpoints and increasing number of characters really reminds me of the way life seems to speed up the older I get

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    Couldn’t finish Wuthering Heights, maybe another Brontë sis will catch my attention?

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    Couldn’t finish Wuthering Heights, maybe another Brontë sis will catch my attention?

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    Family Drama

    Family Drama

    Rebecca Fallon

    A vibrant debut and powerful meditation on family, motherhood, and the cost of holding on to your dreams, reminiscent of Ann Napolitano. It’s 1997, and snow is blanketing a New England beach. Two befuddled seven-year-olds watch as their mother’s body is tipped overboard a crumbling boat. A Viking funeral, followed by a raucous wake. A send-off fit for soap opera star Susan Bliss. Fifteen years earlier, Susan is a blazing, beautiful young woman, passionate about her art. It’s impossible not to fall in love with her, and so Alcott, a practical professor, does—hopelessly. And so begins the love story of Susan’s two-paneled life, an unconventional, jetlag-filled arrangement that takes her back and forth between her home in New England as a wife and mother to young twins, and the bright lights of soapy Los Angeles. In the present, Susan’s twins grow up in the shadow of her all-consuming absence. Sebastian, a sensitive artist, cleaves to her memory, fascinated with the artifacts of her starry past. Viola, resentful of her mother’s torn allegiances, distances herself from the memories of her. But when Viola runs into her mother’s old costar Orson Grey—now a renowned Hollywood star—she finds herself falling deeply in love with him and begins to put together the pieces of a mother she never really knew. Sharp, assured, and beautifully written, Family Drama is a story told in double-helix, with intertwined timelines that explore the different versions of ourselves we share with the world and with each other.

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    Mark Ernest Pothier

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    Kinda bizarre to be sitting reading this in the outer sunset (my neighborhood) right now, but guess that’s why I picked it up at all. I’m 1 block away from the location of the first chapter setting. Good thus far but maybe ill planning on my part to read a male authored novel about a divorced guy right after finishing When We Lost Our Heads 😅

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