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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
This book was popular a while back, and I read it then. Now, evidently more have discovered it. Why more is not made of family dysfuction/abuse and overweight children is beyond me. FAT GIRL is not the happy ending you might expect, but it will open your eyes to why you do the things you do regarding food and relationships. If you're interested in fiction dealing with dysfunctional famlies, I'd suggest the books "I Know This Much is True" and "Bark of the Dogwood," but if you want a great self-help one, try "You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay.
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Not a short book by any means, GRAPES is nevertheless THE American Classic. While his EAST OF EDEN is a remarkable work, GRAPES is even more powerful, dealing with the dust-bowl and the Great Depression. The saga of the Joad family from Oklahoma to California is fraught with danger, bias, angst, humor, and hard work. It's hard to imagine just how bad it probably was for these people at that time, but Steinbeck captures this remarkably well, and the details---the sights, sounds, and smells---are so vivid that it is amazing. By the way, if you get a chance to see the film with Henry Fonda, while it's not terribly faithful to the book, it is still very good. But GRAPES OF WRATH, the book, will… Read more
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
There are three books you simply MUST read. These are "Water for Elephants" which I found to be fascinating, though somewhat not that easy to relate to at first, "Bark of the Dogwood" which is quite funny AND disturbing, and of course, the reason we're all here, "The Memory Keeper's Daughter." Of the three, TMKD is the best. I did not know, until after I'd finished the book, that this was Edward's first novel. Evidently she had a collection of short stories before this, but MEMORY was her first attempt at this longer form. The story has been told here, in reviews, many times: fraternal twins, one with Down Syndrome. And the decision of what to do with one. Parts of this book were hard to… Read more
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