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Chargement... The Mermaid of Brooklynpar Amy Shearn
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  sunshine9573 | Dec 19, 2022 |   The Mermaid of Brooklyn is set in a very real Brooklyn. Park Slope moms whisk their babies from baby language classes to expressive fingerpainting. Changing times are bringing her in-laws’ candy gift-basket company to a slow, painful bankruptcy. The city manages to be both glowing with possibility, and summer-sticky. Full review on my blog (  ) TheFictionAddiction | Aug 12, 2020 | I really liked this was an excellent. I like Jenny, in some ways her attitude of resignation because of her circumstances, because she could not change it at the time, would perhaps be mine too. She is struggling to make sense of all that she “knows” and is going through a huge range of emotions trying to sort out her predicament – being a “single” mom (missing husband) in New York, with two young kids – when it looks like everyone’s life may be going just hunky-dory when hers is just at the brink of a precipice. I found this story to be very thought provoking and I felt such a empathy for Jenny trying to re-think life, because don’t we all want to do that sometimes? ( ) karmakath | Sep 8, 2014 | I really liked this was an excellent. I like Jenny, in some ways her attitude of resignation because of her circumstances, because she could not change it at the time, would perhaps be mine too. She is struggling to make sense of all that she “knows” and is going through a huge range of emotions trying to sort out her predicament – being a “single” mom (missing husband) in New York, with two young kids – when it looks like everyone’s life may be going just hunky-dory when hers is just at the brink of a precipice. I found this story to be very thought provoking and I felt such a empathy for Jenny trying to re-think life, because don’t we all want to do that sometimes? ( ) karmaforlifechick | Aug 17, 2014 | Otherwise, the book is hard to describe. Though being saved by the spirit of a mermaid (specifically a rusulka, the scrappy mermaid of Slavic folk tales) may make you think magical realism (with mysterious things happening all over the city to no one’s astonishment), the story reads more like a literary love letter to her Brooklyn neighborhood from Jenny Lipkin, a very tired stay-at-home mother of two very young children, who has a graduate degree in Russian folklore and a husband who went for cigarettes and never came back. The Mermaid of Brooklyn will definitely be on my list of favorites of 2013, along with The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer. If you liked The Interestings, you’ll probably also like The Mermaid of Brooklyn. To read a fuller review, please visit Bay State Reader's Advisory. (  ) baystateRA | Sep 12, 2013 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: In this beautifully written novel that blends the whimsy of The Time Traveler's Wife with an indelible portrait of motherhood, a young woman strives to pick up the pieces after her husband mysteriously leaves??and she finds strength from the unlikeliest of allies. Jenny Lipkin is an average, stretched-too-thin Brooklyn mom tackling the challenges of raising two children in a cramped Park Slope walk-up and bonding with the other moms about breast-feeding while spending endless hours in Prospect Park. All she really wants is to survive the sweltering New York summer with a shred of sanity intact. But when her husband Harry, a compulsive gambler, vanishes one evening without a word, Jenny finally reaches her breaking point. In a moment of despair, a split-second decision changes her life forever. Pulled from the brink by an unexpected??and as it turns out, sometimes annoying??supernatural ally, Jenny is forced to rethink her ideas about success, motherhood, romance, and relationships. Confronting her inner demons??of both the mermaid and nonmermaid variety??is no easy task, and eventually Jenny has to come to terms with who she truly is, for better Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I enjoy chick lit and Amy Shearn doesn’t disappoint! There were moments when Jenny’s reactions just had me laughing. Her description of Jenny at her worst was pretty understandable. The poor woman was overwhelmed taking care of everything and now Harry’s gone, so the little things he did to help out are gone as well. This was truly a unique and fun novel. I look forward to reading her other published novels.
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