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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An entertaining, insightful read,
By A Customer
This review is from: Her Mother's Daughter (Mass Market Paperback)
I am reading Her Mother's Daughter - its coming to an end, and I know I will miss these characters and their wonderful insights into the lives of women. I am of the younger generation, and I suppose the rules are not as rigid for me , but the roles women are expected to play do not change. As the generations go by, the guilt becomes less ( I hope), but will it ever go away? I spite of having so many depressed women in it- it is suprprsingly not a depressing book, rather, it is uplifting, as introspective books can sometimes be. I would disagree with the other reviewers who have said that the author seems to hate men- it is not so. She does not hate men, only the world-order that favors men... when she says "... it was not a fit life for a man, .. why was it considered a fit life for a woman.."-she brings out the question that every woman has instinctively wanted to ask.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fantastic discovery,
By Turnbull Jacqueline (Antwerp, Belgium, Europe) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Her Mother's Daughter (Mass Market Paperback)
A new door has opened finding this author quite by accident in a second hand book store. Since reading Her Mother's daughter I can't read enough books written by this author. As a woman of 50 I feel -for the first time in my life- that there are other women like me, torn between the old and new way of life. Working and bringing up children. Husbands raised by their parents not understanding that we were living two lives at the same time and trying to be perfect and please everyone. The men were not to be blamed, they didn't know any better than we did, it took me 25 years to gently make my husband understand my point of view. I hope I made a better job bringing up my two sons to this new way of life - the 50/50 way. Marilyn French doesn't hate men I think as is said in a previous review, she definitely points out the tender, forever guilty feeling of women our age. I cannot speak for the younger women. It's compusilve reading, nothing to do with being a feminist, but to understand how women feel and experience life. Fantastic reading, the best ever....and I've read more books than I can remember. I'm certainly advertising this author among my friends and they are just as impressed as I am. Thank you Ms. French.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
exploring the power of detail,
By Sandra Zickefoose (Katonah, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel (Hardcover)
Marilyn French has written a number of good books--each exploring things that are in fact common, every day aspects of life--and thus oft times invisible and not recognized as important. Becasue she is also a good writer and a talented story teller--she is able to keep us reading, all the while making us think about how important these 'small' parts of life really are. In this book she creates characters who are glued together by biology and family culture and yet who are entirely unique individuals who love and struggle with each other as they create their own and each others lives. You come away from it with a sence of the importance of the details of our own lives and the impact of all those 'small' things in our lives on the lives of others. Thus this book can entertain you and leave you with things to think about far into the future--an accomplishment for any novel.
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