Julie Buntin
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Foto taget av: Author Julie Buntin at the 2017 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63991141
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- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Michigan, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Yrken
- novelist
magazine writer
teacher - Organisationer
- Marymount Manhattan College
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Statistik
- Verk
- 1
- Medlemmar
- 564
- Popularitet
- #44,322
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 44
- ISBN
- 20
- Språk
- 3
- Favoritmärkt
- 1
There is the other storyline of an alcoholic thirty-something narrator. I appreciated this one, but I wondered if this narrator's perception of her problem with alcohol was inflated. Maybe it was lack of detail, or maybe I just have experience of serial drunks that were way deeper in the sand.
The book, I think (I hope) made me a better person. The narrator talked about her mom in a way that made me consider forgiving mine.
Jonathan Safran Foer's blurb was true to its word - this novel really does have some hilarious sentences that I read to people that were riding the bus with me. They laughed at them, too. One sentence about two geeky girls skipping class only to hide in the bathroom, lest they be discovered, was a particularly good one.… (mer)