This is the second book I've read by Juliette Fay, and I wanted to so much to really love it, but in both this book and Fay's other novel, Shortest Way Home, I was somewhat frustrated by the stereotypical portrayals of the major characters. In both novels, her main characters are so obtuse about what is happening to and around them as to be unrealistic. Fay's writing is wonderful and evocative, her subject matter is compelling, and I enjoyed how the stories played out, I just wish her main characters were a little less clueless. This is not my genre. I prefer “books set in foreign countries with misogynic regimes” (like the author pokes fun of) to books about the everyday mundane, but this writer made the everyday mundane a riot. As a “cupcaker” myself, I identified with the stay-at-home mom and her place in a society that alternately treats women like they don’t “contribute” or sucks women into the drama of bored housewives. Her issues with friendships, her daughter’s eating disorder, her son’s anger, her ex’s younger woman, and her own relationships carried the plot along at a good pace.The only bits I didn’t like about this book were how embarrassingly easy the protagonist was, and its theme of her “progression" into "standing up for herself." Because that’s what the world needs: one more jerk. I feel like there’s a difference between standing up for yourself and just being rude, and all she learned how to do was be rude – like everyone else. I respected her more for being “too nice.” All in all, this filled my light-and-fluffy read needs.
What do You think about Yüzleşme (2011)?
Easy read. Light story with a nice ending. Hopeful but predictable.
—Bslkp
I was hoping for more of an ending but I was really into this book
—afshin
