Everything Here Is Under Control is a story of contrasts. The story is told from the present and from the past, when Amanda was newly in love and figuring out her life and Carrie was the one with a new baby and spit-up on her shirt. One of my favorite parts was witnessing the two friends realize they had no idea what the other's life was really like--Carrie remembers having no tolerance for hearing about Amanda's carefree life while she was in the trenches of motherhood, and Amanda realizes she was a complete jerk to her friend when she needed her help. There is something simmering under Amanda and Carrie's relationship that readers don't learn until the second half of the book. This new knowledge is jarring and, while it makes their dynamic make more sense, it is strange for the reader to be processing something that the characters have known all along.
Everything Here Is Under Control
By Emily Adrian
Blackstone Publishing July 2020
272 pages
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By Emily Adrian
Blackstone Publishing July 2020
272 pages
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I love intergenerational stories, and I was excited to find out more about the amazingly named Boop and her granddaughter. But both women suffered from an inability to speak up--Boop about her past and Eve about what she wants in the future. It seems author Mary Helen Sheriff was unsure whether she wanted to write a lighthearted road trip romp or delve into the pain of depression and unresolved family trauma, so we are left somewhere in the murky middle.
Boop and Eve's Road Trip
By Mary Helen Sheriff
She Writes Press October 2020
268 pages
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By Mary Helen Sheriff
She Writes Press October 2020
268 pages
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Both of these are new to my notice, thanks for sharing your thoughts
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