Baker Towers, by Jennifer
Haigh
After appetizers and dinner as we
were all sitting around the dining room table trying to get on the subject of
the book.
We had a hard time getting
started to discuss the book, since we are such an interesting group and everyone
has so much to say about everything. At
one point I think we were all talking at once.
The overall feeling was that the
book was boring and I don’t think anyone really enjoyed it. There were many characters and not one of
them was really that interesting.
Basically, they all had some kind of issue one way or the other. But, one thing is for sure, everyone knows a
family like this, or knows of someone who does.
This is a small mining town and you have the sons who leave, you have the
one daughter who is the glue of the family or at least she tries to be and is
not appreciated. You have one loony sister who shacks up with one of the locals killed in the mining accident, and she goes off the deep end completely. The youngest sister who is very spoiled but thanks to her
older sister who is the responsible one
in the family does get her to graduate college and become a responsible
person.
We have a Polish father and an Italian
mother. She caters to her husband and to her children. The mom has low
self-esteem which carries over to her daughters. The two sons are only concerned with themselves and feel they have no family
obligations.
The story jumped around quite a
bit and it was hard to follow a timeline.
No one was impressed with this author or the characters.
After book discussion, we
discussed our limo trip to DC. We also
decided that we were going to try and recruit a new member to bring the total
back up to 11.
Love Ya All
Grace
