Book Review: Well Behaved Wives Amy Sue Nathan via boomerhighway
Amy Sue Nathan is a friend, a fellow writer, both of us having lived, raised our children in a suburb of Chicago. But life is change, Amy eventually moving east, publishing her first novel,It’s a perfect title, referring to the two women who married Richard Glass—one the ex-wife, the other the current wife, their lives becoming complicated, emotional walls challenged and broken when Richard Glass suddenly dies.
I could continue these short summaries, stressing I have read, enjoyed all of Amy’s books. But as a fellow writer, this review is to stress that Amy has perfected her craft…Reading Nathan, we can see how she weaves her own history, her own hurts and challenges into her work. That’s the best way for a writer to bring flesh and blood characters to the page, to evoke emotion and allow us to live in the “place” of the story. Research helps. That might mean reading or an actual car trip.
It doesn’t matter, though it adds to the portrait that Nathan provides—that the perfect wives living in the posh suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are Jewish. Nathan sets tables of ethic foods all through the novel, so even if you can’t picture the sweet, you are already craving it. But as modern readers, modern women, we aren’t craving the need for being well-behaved, for spending hours learning fromthe etiquette of setting a table, pleasing your spouse.
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