Dear Reader,
I have read three books this past autumn about which I would like to briefly journal now. These are three very different stories. About the only thing they have in common is a shared language-English. Sometimes I see a glowing thread of commonality between two of them. This, of course, inevitably leaves a third out in the cold.
One thing I can write about each is that an intelligent female character, unafraid to face unkind facts, forms the central character. These are: Eva Khatchadourian-"We Need to Talk About Kevin", Hope Chafetz-"Seek My Face", and Jean Paget-"A Town Like Alice."
As aforementioned, each of these women is uncommonly intelligent. Eva has a spine of steel which is a necessity in her bi-weekly visits to an incarcerated teenage son. Hope Chafetz is a dreamer, painter, and romantic which leads her through 3 marriages to major players in the art world. Jean Paget is an unflinchingly hard worker and problem-solver during the Malaysian death march of WWII.
Honestly? Eva and her ferocious, witty discussions with son Kevin leave the other two in the dust.
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