I was really impressed by The Push by Ashley Audrain. It wasn’t a book I was expecting to like, much less one that I’d be eager to recommend to others. I actually only read it because one of my book clubs put it on the docket, and I wanted to be able to participate. I …
The book is written as an “oral history.” Kind of like a documentary in written form with frequent splices and a range of points of view. Daisy Jones the Groupie (1965-1972). Daisy Jones is born in 1951 in Hollywood Hills (Los Angeles). Her parents are a well-known painter and a model. Daisy is rich, beautiful …
The book is in second-person with Alicia’s psychotherapist (Theo Faber) as the narrator. It is interspersed with Alicia’s old diary entries. Part One Pt I, Chapters 1-2. Alicia is a painter. She murdered her husband Gabriel six years ago on August 25. A neighbor (Barbie Hellman) heard shots. Police arrived to find a gun with …
Part I Chapters 1 – 5 (A brief prologue introduces two older siblings who are 16 and 14 when a baby joins their family. It also mentions a dark period when some people end up staying with them for over five years.) The book opens with Libby Louise Jones inheriting an expensive mansion from the …
Chapters 1 – 4 January Andrews is a chick lit writer whose father has recently passed, leaving her life in tatters. Her father’s funeral resulted in the discovery that he had been cheating on her mother. (Her mother knew, but January did not.) His mistress, Sonya, also gave January a letter from him and passed …
