Megan Kelso

A middling collection of domestic fiction short stories, many of them expanded from shorter works previously published elsewhere (see below).

Watergate Sue

A generational family drama about mothers and daughters, jumping from the present day where a grandchild is about to be born to a woman not yet born in the flashbacks where her mother is obsessing over the Watergate scandal. So?

Cats in Service

A family inherits the cats the mother's sister has trained to be household servants. Creepy but pointless.

The Egg Room

More meandering family drama. Meh.

Korin Voss

Set in 1947, a single mother's daughters are peripheral to the shambles which are her career and love life. But at least she tries to be nicer to Black people???

The Golden Lasso

A young girl is obsessed with rock climbing and a cute older boy. The most engaging story in the book, it wobbles around in a typical coming-of-age manner but mostly works as it takes a dark turn.

FOR REFERENCE:

Contents:
• Watergate Sue / Originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, April to September, 2007.
• Cats in Service / Originally published as a minicomic of the same name in 2014.
• The Egg Room
• Korin Voss / An expanded version of a story previously entitled "The Good Witch," which originally appeared as a one-page comic on the back cover of Strumpet #1 and as a nine-page story in Runner Runner (Free Comic Book Day 2012).
• The Golden Lasso / An expanded version of a 14-page story that previously appeared in the 2011 minicomic Acorns & Pebbles.… (más)

This was an epic tale covering the life of Brigitte, her mother and how the Civil War that tore their land apart started.

The cute factor of the people may make you think this book is for children but it's definitely an adult book. I also had trouble differentiating characters from time to time.

Brigitte learns her countries history and tries to make sense of her decision to follow someone from the North at the same timer. Her mother also tried to make things work with someone from the North. It's interesting to see the parallels between Brigitte and her mother and Brigitte's grandmother's anger puts an interesting spin on things.… (más)