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Laddar... White Picket Fences (2009)av Susan Meissner
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Susan Meissner's White Picket Fences is the first novel I have read by this author. I really enjoyed it and purchased the audio version – Bernadette Dunne was exceptional with a wonderful voice. This book had such meaning – a seemingly perfect family (anything but). A beautiful yet haunting portrayal of what lies beneath a perfect suburban family. Members of this extended family learn to trust one another with secrets, fears, feelings and loved the teens and their relationship with the guys in the rest home tell their story of the Holocaust and two survivors of a concentration camp which was a connection to their family. Tally and Chase were my favorite characters and throughout the book Tally showed maturity beyond her years. I am looking forward to reading more from this author who is an excellent story teller. I really enjoyed the meaning that this book had behind it. Susuan Meissner captures your attention and uses so many small details that will tie everything together and will also keep you guessing. In "White Picket Fences" the character each play such an important role in the story and the meaning of finding your own self and realizing that no one is perfect. She always finds a way to find a connection to the reader and to their life, and find something that can effect them. I would recommed this book to anyone who like a book that can have an effect on their daily life. It is a good quick read and Susan Meissner did a great job in this book with the characters,plot, and use of rhetorical devices. White Picket Fences is a beautiful story of family secrets revealed. It is set in the San Diego area, which is always fun to me as that is my home. The Janvier family lives a seemingly perfect life. The mom's (Amanda) brother, Bart, runs off to Poland to uncover family history and leaves his teenage daughter, Tally (Tallulah), with her grandmother who dies shortly after she arrives. She goes to live with the Janviers and becomes close with her cousin Matt. They end up doing a sociology project together and choose their focus to be the Holocaust, of which their family was involved in WWII. The Janviers' marriage is not as stable as it seems. They disagree on a sensitive subject involving Matt's childhood. It is a fairly complicated plot. Susan Meissner did a beautiful job weaving several story lines together, although I thought it felt a bit coincidental at times. If you're looking for a light read, this probably is not it, but it is intriguing and I would certainly recommend it to others. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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HTML:When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands?? in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm??and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a ??normal? life, even though their own storybook lives are about to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Chase Janvier hasn??t seen his cousin in years, and other than a vague curiosity about her strange life, he doesn??t expect her arrival will affect him much??or interfere with his growing, disturbing interest in a long-ago house fire that plagues his dreams unbeknownst to anyone else. Tally and Chase bond as they interview two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project, and become startlingly aware that the whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, with the echoes of the past, and with the realization that ignoring tragic situations won??t make them go away. Will Tally??s presence blow apart their carefully-constructed world, knocking down the illusion of the white picket fence and reveal a hidden past that could destroy them all??or can she help them find the tr Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The characters were too predictable, making the storyline fairly predictable. There was one twist I didn't expect, but for the most part, I could see the story unfolding before it happened. ( )