It's hard to leave your safety cocoon but coming back after you have left the very house that you've grown up in proves even harder in this book.
The title is kinda soapy. Misleading in a way.
This novel is about what happen to parents (mothers particularly) when their kids grew up and leave the house. Kids looking forward to it but found life is not always rosy and how coming back to the very place you grew up in, somehow doesnt give you the same comfort or peace you craving for. How life was so much simpler then.
Rosa the second child lose her job
p112 Losing a job through retrench(even if you hate the job), when you are faced with rejection, in whatever situation and however deserved or undeserved, it wasnt just your confidence that suffered, it was your faith in the future, your ability to see that any effort you might make could be a tiny investment in what would happen to you there after; how pointless daily life seems when you cant see where you're going
When Ben the youngest child has to sleep on his parent's sofa
p355 ... the strangeness of the sofa didnt belong to the actual sofa: it belonged to the situation
My favourite
p149 It's like presents - the way people give you what they want to give you. It's a sort of conditional generosity
It was an okay read for me. It wasnt what I expected from the cover title.
p166 'You've become responsible forever, for what you have tamed'. Hmm... something to think about.
3 comments:
Hi Leo! this one isn't yet on the list of hundreds awaiting reading... ;) But I'm reading Aravind Adiga's «Between the Assassinations", an interestiing picture of India...
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I recognized the title Gil. Do share how is it.
I think that the White Tiger is much more thrilling. Compulsory reading... ;)
But this one is also interesting...
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