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A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl by Jean Thompson

A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

by Jean Thompson

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  • Oct 2018, 336 pages
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Cathryn Conroy

Written with Great Emotional Insight: A Sad Book About the Inexorable Ties of Mothers and Daughters
Oh, this is a sad book. But it's also a book about real life, and some of real life IS sad. Very sad. Author Jean Thompson has written a magnificent story about mothers and daughters over three generations that will resonate with virtually every woman.

The novel, which takes place from World War II to the present day, is set in an unnamed small college town in the Midwest—the kind of town where the college dominates everything and those who live there are called "townies."

• Evelyn is the matriarch. She married Andrew soon after the war ended, but she never recovered from her anger and frustration at having tomore
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Sandi W.

bleak and sorrowful
This was a book that I probably would have set down, if it were not that I was reading it with a group. But because I was, I forged on, and am now fairly happy that I did.

The first half of this book was frustrating. I felt the characters were shallow and basically portrayed people who I try hard not to associate with. The story tells of three generations of women. First Evelyn, who was forced to conform and marry, when it was not what she wanted. Second was the peace maker Laura, who blamed herself for everyone else's problems. Lastly came Grace, who having no self confidence, was trying to find her place inmore
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