Wayward
As I’ve noted many times before, I’m not really a “beach read” kinda gal. So I suppose it’s appropriate that one of my literal beach reads has been about a middle-aged woman going through a probable “mid-life crisis.” #NotFluffy
Wayward by Dana Spiotta is fab: a total page turner of a story about Samantha (Sam) and how the 2016 election seems to put all of her life choices under the microscope. I knew it would be a good one when, toward the beginning of the book, Sam attends a support/activist group where white upper-middle-class/affluent women are called out. This is the first of Spiotta’s books I’ve read (she is also the author of National Book Award finalist Eat the Document, among others), but if her attention to nuance and subtle trends is the same as it is in Wayward, I’d read them all.
Gotta go, I have some other total non-beach-reads to attend to. (Speaking of, my daughter requested a copy of Beach Read or People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry — not an ebook…a “real book” bless her heart — and we couldn’t find it in Target or any of the massive airport bookstores. But Dostoevesky was readily available. What’s up with that?)
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