Mary Pleshette Willis

The story of a young New York Jewish daughter of a weak mother and a bullying, emotionally abusive gynecologist father, who marries her fiancee despite his near-crippling accident, and struggles from then on to balance the needs of her husband, her parents, and her own desire to live a fulfilled life. The back-and-forth battle between herself and her father, conflicted with love and anger, could have been a compeling one. But it is a tale poorly told, reminiscent of a Lifetime TV movie, cliched and filled with irrelevant and unintriguing happenings. At best the book makes a guilty fast summer read.… (más)