Review
From the book jacket: Kate Walbert conveys the dreams and reality
of a group of women who came into the quick rush of adulthood,
marriage, and child-bearing during the 1950s. Narrating from the
heart of ten companions, Walbert subtly depicts all the anger,
disappointment, vulnerability, and pride of her characters: "Years
ago we were led down the primrose lane, then abandoned somewhere
near the carp pond." Now alone, with their own daughters
grown, they are finally free -- and ready to take charge: from
staging an intervention for the town deity to protesting the
slaughter of the country club's fairway geese, to dialing former
lovers in the dead of night.
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Beyond the Book
Kate Walbert
made her writing debut in 1998 with
Where She Went, a collection of
interlinked stories about the lives and travels of a mother
and daughter. Marion moves frequently, a lifestyle that
never permits her to form a stable identity. Her daughter
Rebecca, by contrast, travels with the intent of "finding
herself," but only becomes more and more rootless in the
process.
The New York Times named
Where She Went a
Notable Book of 1998 and said that it
"contains many quick flashes of beauty. . .it goes far and
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