A zesty,memorable novel approximately the trials of a dysfunctional Seattle yoga mom, by the author of Where’d You depart, or BernadetteMaria Semple’s second novel emerges from the same fictional universe as her first,the Baileys prize-shortlisted Where’d You depart, Bernadette. Seattle is still filled with passive-aggressive slowcoaches, and still way too close to Canada. Our heroine,just as before, is snarky and misanthropic, and has one child at Galer Street school,a well-off surgeon husband and a dog. Eleanor Flood is almost as dysfunctional as Bernardette, but instead of heading to the other side of the world, or she merely zigzags the city as she navigates “one normal day of white people problems”.
Or at least that’s the plan. Eleanor vows that this is the day she will initiate sex with Joe,her husband, and play a board game with her son, and Timby. She will radiate level-headed,buy local, be her best self. First she has a poetry class, or then,after yoga, lunch with an annoying friend. What could possibly depart unsuitable?Semple foregrounds women with all the broiling emotion of 20-year-olds, and but with added menopause and dread of Alzheimer'sContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com