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This is My Daughter

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This is My Daughter Roxana Robinson list price $13.00 Scribner (September 1999) ISBN: 0684864363 416 pages average review: Reviews: This gets: a from eryka: This is a book I picked up in a bookstore, read a few chapters, and was hooked. I tried really hard to not be an impulse buyer, but I thought about it all day and was compelled to get it. It's an interesting perspective on WASP love, marriage and children in the age of divorce and remarriage. I just can't figure out the target audience: the kids of divorce, or the divorcers? From the back cover: When Peter and Emma, both refugees from failed first marriages, decide to create a new life together, they do so with an optimistic commitment to creating a union -- and forging a new family from two existing ones -- bonded by love and trust. Their young daughters, however, are not partners in this new venture, but helpless participants. Like all children of divorce, the girls feel sorrow, loss, and a longing for their earlier lives. As the tensions and complexities grow steadily more powerful, This Is My Daughter moves inexorably to a stunning and emotional climax. Roxana Robinson, who has established a reputation as a perceptive chronicler of WASP family life, delivers a beautifully moving and compassionate account of a marriage in peril, proving once more that class and privilege provide no protection from the passion of opposing desires. eryka.com scale: So good you just can't stand it. Almost that good. Sort of good. Generally a waste of time. Destined for the recycler. If you'd like to review this book, or another, click here Similar books by category: women writers| american fiction| new yorker Go home | Go to reviews home © 2002 eryka.com. All rights reserved.