Hanna Halperin
Autor de Something Wild: A Novel
Obras de Hanna Halperin
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Educación
- Kenyon College (BA, 2012)
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I Could Live Here Forever: A Novel por Hanna Halperin
I’m so tired of books that expect me to just accept that the main characters are in love without ever actually demonstrating how or why. The romance in this was so hollow. The portrayal of drug addiction was so surface level. I didn’t care for the pacing, the main character was insufferable, the whole “I’m in school to be a writer” plot was super corny. The audiobook was so painfully melodramatic for no reason. This whole book just didn’t work for me at all.
This is the story of a woman who endures and tolerates domestic abuse and the effect that it has on her daughters who try to stop the cycle of abuse. One has to question why somebody would willingly stay in a relationship like this, especially given the radiating psychological effects it has on the rest of the family. The daughters, in particular, take all sorts of dangerous risks that I don't think would occur to somebody growing up in a stable environment. It seems like an all-too-common story - and a sad one.… (más)
A searing novel about the love and contradictions of sisterhood, the intoxicating desires of adolescence, and the traumas that trap mothers and daughters in cycles of violence
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- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 134
- Popularidad
- #151,727
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 9