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Loading... Tea (2001)by Stacey D'Erasmo
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Written in three rather contrived sections: "Morning," "Afternoon," "Evening," which I guess were supposed to connote different stages of her life. The first was the best, though the whole was riddled with similes and metaphors (the author mentioned in her interview at the end that a critic complained there were too many metaphors; "as if there were a limit," responded the author). Yes there is a limit; it's to the readers' patience. To me it means careless writing that breaks my suspension of disbelief - as did the protagonist's November birthday and claim that she was a Gemini. Too much remove from the protagonist; too much recounting of events of her life instead of the central, barely discussed theme of how she accepted the fact that she was gay. no reviews | add a review
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This is the story of Isabel Gold, whose suburban youth is interrupted by her mother's suicide. Torn by love, anger and sorrow, Isabel grows up trying to understand her mother. Attracted to the theatre, Isabel falls in love with Rebecca, stage manager of an avant garde theatre group. No library descriptions found. |
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Well. Not bad, not great. I do like the nostalgic haze of her past. Yes, it could be more fleshed out, but perhaps the shallowness is just the faded image of memory.
The only thing that kept me going was this weird desire to inhabit the 70s/80s as a reader.