Posted by trouble on March 2, 2002, at 4:43:38
Joyce Carol Oates, We Were The Mulvaneys.
I read it 2 years ago, kept going back after each chapter and reading the best parts out loud, trying to keep the book from ending.
The last sentence in the story kept me sitting rigidly for 15 minutes. Devastating. For the next few days the first thing I did when I woke up was grab the book and read that line again, and the whole story and all the characters came vividly back. Not bad for someone who can rarely keep a storylines straight, much less the characters.
To this day I worry about them, wondering how they're getting on.
Oh and before returning the book to the library I put a note inside asking the next reader to call me afterwards in case they needed to talk.
Any takers, or has Oprah beaten me to the punch? She did name it the number 1 book last year didn't she? That's a good thing, uh, right?
trouble
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