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"For Ruthie, the frozen, snow-padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. But this is no picturesque New England. Once "home of the bean and the cod, where Lowells speak only to Cabots, and Cabots speak only to God," by the 1980s it is an unforgiving place, awash with secrets. Very Cold People tells Ruthie's story, through her eyes: from the shame handed down through her Italian and Jewish immigrant forebears and indomitable mother, to the violences and silences endured by each of her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to get out of--and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive"--… (meer)
[b:Very Cold People|58082210|Very Cold People|Sarah Manguso|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1637603379l/58082210._SY75_.jpg|81125603] is a novel by [a:Sarah Manguso|52289|Sarah Manguso|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1631212603p2/52289.jpg] which describes the tormented New England childhood of a youngster told in first person vignettes in a deadpan style. She is the only child of unloving, somewhat odd parents. Her suffering is revealed in her behavioral peculiarities (not eating, pulling out her eyelashes, peeling fingernails, silences). Her parents respond unexpectedly, sometimes cruelly, yet they throw birthday parties for her and she enjoys swimming, skating, piano lessons and acting in the school play. Despite their penuriousness and devotion to thrift shops, they live in a nice house with "three porches and a balcony" in a good neighborhood. Various childhood traumas with the narrator's friends are described and make up a thread common to many of us stumbling through adolescence. An undercurrent of sexual assault runs through the story, her mother, her cousin, her own encounters on the subway, in the hospital where she spends time in therapy. "My mother had borne my loathing for years like someone wrongly accused, quietly serving her unearned sentence knowing that she would someday be free, but not yet" yet she raises a child of her own decades later "who has grown up knowing ordinary love." The writing is good and the characters are well described although I had trouble tracking her friends. I particularly enjoyed her fantasies about the house's prior occupant and her love interests. I wouldn't go through adolescence again for anything. [a:Sarah Manguso|52289|Sarah Manguso|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1631212603p2/52289.jpg] has produced an apt story of the tribulations of growing up. ( )
Beautiful language and insights, but I was distracted by the narrator’s litany of offenses against her, no matter how well written. I also found myself not nearly as interested in the story within the story. ( )
A girl grows up an outsider in a Massachusetts WASP town haunted by Cabots and Lowells, with some friends and more memories of girlish fads than family affection and gradually learns that in her family affection had no good models and pervasive poisonous ones. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
My parents didn’t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Decades passed, and then one day, some years into raising a child of my own—-who has grown up knowing ordinary love and whose life is unremarkable—-without even trying, without any expectation, without even really noticing what had happened, I saw that I’d stopped waiting.
"For Ruthie, the frozen, snow-padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. But this is no picturesque New England. Once "home of the bean and the cod, where Lowells speak only to Cabots, and Cabots speak only to God," by the 1980s it is an unforgiving place, awash with secrets. Very Cold People tells Ruthie's story, through her eyes: from the shame handed down through her Italian and Jewish immigrant forebears and indomitable mother, to the violences and silences endured by each of her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to get out of--and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive"--
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