![]() ![]() Near the very end, the topic bubbled up a little more following what happened to someone in her social circle (I won’t give anything away), but overall I didn’t feel that it was a strong theme running through the story. I don’t think she was aware of how vacuous she was, and I certainly didn’t feel like she was struggling to “cope with her dissatisfaction” in life like the synopsis implied. ![]() Because of that, I felt like she really believed that this was her lot in life and that the status quo suited her just fine. Most of the story was about her day to day life and only occasionally did I feel I got a glimpse of her questioning her place in the world. I was anticipating a novel about the angst of a 1940s / 1950s housewife and her internal struggles to find self-worth, and although it was an interesting story I didn’t think the book delivered on that theme. ![]()
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