Red Hook Road

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• RED HOOK ROAD by Ayelet Waldman

  Review by Bonnie Brody (JUL 12, 2010) Without much ado, let me state that I think this book is brilliant. It took my breath away and grabbed me by my heart from the first page till its stunning coda. Without being maudlin or histrionic, Ayelet Waldma ... (read full critics)

  mostlyfiction published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

• A Wedding and a Funeral

  Ayelet Waldman attracts so much Internet ire for her self-­revelatory essays and her groaning board of a Twitter feed that I have come to think of her as Ay-yi-yi-let. There she goes again, alerting the world to her abortion; her bipolar disorder; he ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  Love and Loss in Maine...

  In Red Hook, there are the locals, and then the "from aways". When John marries Becca two families become intertwined. But not in the way they expected. Just an hour later after a terrible car accident, the two families have to go on without John and Becca. A beautiful book about love and loss and g ... (continue)

  In Red Hook, there are the locals, and then the "from aways". When John marries Becca two families become intertwined. But not in the way they expected. Just an hour later after a terrible car accident, the two families have to go on without John and Becca. A beautiful book about love and loss and going on...I hesitated reading this one - Waldman is the loud wife of Michel CHabon better known for her essays on being a "bad mother" but she actually writes well, captures detail of characters - especially the over bearing mother - wonder who was the model???

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• English Books
• Hardcover 352 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 0385517866
• ISBN-13: 9780385517867
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2010
• Also available as: Others

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