So, I loved her last book Prep. Thought that she gave the narrator an incredibly unique voice that captured adolescence angst to perfection. This novel moves beyond boarding school to the relationships that confound and confuse the early 20s. “Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn’t exist to accommodate you, which, in Hannah’s observation, is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into adulthood."I really wanted to like this book and I didn't hate it. Unfortunately, the novel really seemd to suffer from a sophomore slump. The narrator, Hannah Gavener, is compelling and you root for her but are left feeling in the end that you were lead astray. Kirkus Reviews writes: "An earnest, if somewhat underdeveloped, antidote to chick-lit. " I agree.
Not a favorite but glad to start a Sittenfeld collection. Eager to read American Wife up next and man oh man, nobody writes low self esteem better than Curtis.
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