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Life can be hard, but it's a lot easier when you are a good person, trying to do the right thing surrounded by people who love you! Goodness has a way of being contagious. Lucky boy. Lucky MAMA.
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This riveting, harrowing novel has been receiving 5 star reviews from just about everyone. It’s on the short list for the Man Booker Literary prize, and got raves from the New York Times. I do agree with these reviews, which is why it’s my recommendation, but it’s not an easy read. Don’t misunderstand, the narrator is a 5 year old boy, so no, it’s not difficult to understand intellectually, it’s just brutal and painful to read as a human being and especially as a mother.
The novel’s premise comes from something we read and hear about too often in the news: a woman has been abducted and kept in a converted garden shed measuring 12 x 12 for 7 years. During this time, her captor and serial rapist has fathered her child who has been born and lived his entire life within the confines of this ROOM. The story begins on Jack’s 5th...
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I just spent a week on vacation with my parents, all 3 of my sisters, all 4 husbands, and all the grandkids—13 kids in all. It was pretty ideal in that we were in a hotel with a bunch of rooms—so you could retreat if you needed to—but the bulk of each day was spent on the beach with the whole group—playing in the sand and swimming in the ocean. The age range of the kids went from twins at 7 months old to the oldest granddaughter from my sister’s first marriage who is going on 19. She had a friend with her, so they did their own thing, but to their credit, they did come over to the daily kid party and helped dig the big holes. The only sitters that came along on the trip were for the twins—otherwise the moms handled the kids—sometimes swapping kids based on activities, and a couple nights we hired hotel nannies so all the grownups...
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