📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Mrs. Everything
AUTHOR: Jennifer Weiner
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: June 11, 2019
https://amzn.to/2Xfdblq
Mrs. Everything is the story of girls going through life. And honestly, its very difficult to write about or summarize this book. Not because the book is bad or unreadable. Very much the opposite. It’s beautiful and complex. And there is so much complexity that I can’t even begin to describe how it touches people in different ways. ⠀
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Bethie and Jo grew up in an Jewish family, struggling to understand a mother who just wanted what was best and a time that served to direct women to be less than they were. How do they navigate through the time to achieve what they wanted in life? ⠀
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This book is an amazing representation of what it means to be a woman and how female relationships should be pursued. Do yourself a favor and take your time with this, savor the imagery and the emotions.⠀
Small Summary:
Do we change or does the world change us?
Jo and Bethie Kaufman were born into a world full of promise.
Growing up in 1950s Detroit, they live in a perfect “Dick and Jane” house, where their roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy, the bookish rebel with a passion to make the world more fair; Bethie is the pretty, feminine good girl, a would-be star who enjoys the power her beauty confers and dreams of a traditional life.
But the truth ends up looking different from what the girls imagined. Jo and Bethie survive traumas and tragedies. As their lives unfold against the background of free love and Vietnam, Woodstock and women’s lib, Bethie becomes an adventure-loving wild child who dives headlong into the counterculture and is up for anything (except settling down). Meanwhile, Jo becomes a proper young mother in Connecticut, a witness to the changing world instead of a participant. Neither woman inhabits the world she dreams of, nor has a life that feels authentic or brings her joy. Is it too late for the women to finally stake a claim on happily ever after?
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I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.