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Description

Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeney’s beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for intimacy. For Miranda, the adolescence spent in her fog-shrouded Maine home has been stark and isolated— alone with her troubled father, a man consumed with his work translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses, her mother mysteriously gone from their lives. Now, having graduated from high school, Miranda’s father arranges for her to stay with old friends in Manhattan, and she embarks on a journey that will open up her father’s past—and her own world—in ways she cannot begin to imagine.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-28
Summary: "Well Worth Reading!"

I came on Amazon this morning to see if the author of this book had written anything else yet. The book still reasonates with me over a year after I read it.
When I read some of the negative reviews I had to add my two cents. This book was wonderful, beautifully written and I highly recommend it. I can't understand people writing anything bad about it, perhaps it was too well done and made people uncomfortable with issues they don't want to acknowledge?

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-04-27
Summary: "A waste of my time and money"

I was greatly disappointed to have put the time into reading a novel that was completely pointless. There was nothing redeeming in this book. The characters are vague and lifeless, there is no distinct plot, and the reader is left wondering what the purpose was of the story. I would absolutely not recommend this book.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-03-23
Summary: "Growth"

The process of reading this story can be a bit exhausting. The first half of the story follows the day-in day-out struggles of the "plain" main girl character, Miranda, as she grows up at school and with her father on Crab Island, Maine.

She's naturally quiet and stays out of trouble. She takes care of her father, including the cooking, cleaning, and typing duties. Her father works as a classical Greek translator, and a lot of this book is constantly interrupted by her describing an annoyingly wearisome Greek story.

She doesn't fail to run into trouble though. Peer pressure and school pressures cause minor acting out, which gets her nowhere.

After high school, Miranda heads to New York where her father has used old connections to get her a job in a University library doing data entry. Here, she openly recognizes her dad's sexuality and has her first meaningful relationships. First she casually dates a guy but as things get serious, she becomes overwhelmed by his disapproving family (among other things). Then, she develops a new, exciting relationship with a very different, unexpected person. In this relationship, she finds more of herself, her preferences, and her first real love.

Miranda eventually returns home after the summer, and brings her significant other with her. This is where the book ends. It's a good story about finding oneself and identity, but it's very tedious - as I said before. Just okay.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-05-19
Summary: "brought me back to my own first time in NYC"

This is just one of those books that really hit the spot for me. You know when you're reflecting on things on some deep level and then you see it all there in some book... it's like that.

It's well written and once I got into the first chapter I couldn't put it down and finished it over a couple of nights. It's about coming of age and finding yourself (some lesbian and gay lifestyle here)... but it's also about the characteristics and issues we unconsciously and involuntarily pick up from our parents... and how amazing and complicated and relieving and wonderful and terrible it all is when that period of disconnecting (from our parents) and reconnecting comes in when we start to examine and explore who we actually are.

And for some reason... NYC is never a boring setting in this process. But neither is that isolated little island she grows up on before heading for the big city (love those extremes). Pretty cool settings here. Reminded me of when I first arrived to NYC myself for grad school and it kinda took me back... including back to the girl I also met there.

Some favorite and not so favorite or maybe just questionable scenes-- that whole situation with the sexy bartender would have been much more interesting if they'd hooked up with each other! lol. What's with the gay men in this book being such helpless slobs? I don't know any gay men like that, hmm... love the Connecticut family... a tad stereotypical but my ex from NYC actually came from a family like that (huge closet case to please the fam I might add). Also love the coffee cart love affair... hilarious. Good choice for the cover, too... I liked imagining the main character had hot legs like that... ;)

I really loved the combination of drama and subtle comedy here... every really good story has a nice mix of that, in my opinion. It stayed with me for days after I read it. Something so utterly real here. I look forward to the next book by this author.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-01-24
Summary: "Excellent"

This book has a lot going for it: complex/mysterious family dynamics, quirky characters, rural and urban locales, and excellent writing. Sweeney writes simply but you can tell she has chops. She just knows how to use them. This is a novel at it's best - while reading it, I felt a hum, like it was adding a dimension to my life. I can't wait until the next Sweeney novel