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Bezig met laden... Fireworks Every Night: A Noveldoor Beth Raymer
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) LynnMPK | Apr 21, 2024 |  Most of the novel is about C.C.'s teenage years in Florida, and her relationship to her highly dysfunctional family. It's a coming of age story about a young woman living on the edge of instability with a volatile father and a weak mother and a troubled sister. There are several chapters about C.C. as an adult, illustrating the effect her upbringing had on her - mistrust, self-reliance, a need to belong somewhere, anywhere. I really liked C.C. as a character, even as I wished she had more agency and would open her eyes to the reality of her family. Throughout, we see her try to maintain connection, however tenuous, with her father and sister and even her mother. The weakest part of the book were the chapters in which C.C. is an adult - there isn't enough there for the reader to fully understand the choices she makes, and I found the ending somewhat unsatisfying. That said, this is a strong debut novel, and I will look forward to more from Raymer. 3.75 stars (  ) katiekrug | Oct 27, 2023 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
""Florida, we got it all. Motorsports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night." That's how twelve-year-old CC's father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burns down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a life for himself, his wife, and his two young daughters in a place he picks largely at random, because the living seems easy. CC's mother is thirty-five going on seventeen, a housewife who just wants to drive a Mustang and hang out at the mall. CC's sister goes from loving Debbie Gibson and jelly shoes to having a full-on drug addiction and listening only to heavy metal, after enduring forms of abuse within her family. In the midst of this dysfunction, CC is trying to stay afloat and make it out--to achieve some semblance of a stable life in America while coming up against the structural and cultural challenges of growing up in poverty"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.64)
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