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Title: A Piece of Normal: A Novel
ISBN: 1400097320
Author:
Sandi Kahn Shelton
Publicate Date: 2007-03-27
Publish: 2007-03-27
List Price: $13.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: This is the story of a 34 year old woman who doesn't stand up for her ideas and is terrified of change.
34 year old advice columnist Lily is afraid of change and her life is about to change big time after her long lost sister who took off after their parents died in a car accident comes back as if nothing had happened and begins sleeping with Lily's ex husband Teddy.
If you think this is bad well hold your horses because Lily's sister Dana not only sleeps with Teddy but gets pregnant!!!Call it dysfunctional I have no other name for this kind of thing.
Lily sister brings with her a bunch of shocking secrets Lily never knew about like the fact that her mother Isabel was involved with their lesbian neighbor Gracie and that they were both planning on living together in Italy but this never happened due to the car accident that killed Isabel and her husband.
Well it doesn't end here but I won't tell you more. The story is ok but it didn't do it for me since the characters were not developed enough for my liking and because I didn't find the depth I would've expected.
Some of you might be entertained by all these dysfunctional events. I just found it average. This is certainly not a book I wish remember.
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2: The most entertaining book I've read in years
If you're looking to get lost in a book and are a woman in her thirties, this is it. In between job demands, child rearing and the tough business of facing middle age, it's great to find an escape such as this one. I'm promptly purchasing all of Ms. Shelton's novels after fully enjoying this one.
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3: Way above normal!!
Not the average summer read, this is way above normal. Sandi Shelton's descriptions of people, places and relationships are all delightfully real, the plotline has many surprising twists.
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4: Kept me up way past my bedtime
I love Sandi Shelton's insight and humor, which put me in mind of a less-flippant Nora Ephron. And I love how she fleshes out characters that other writers would leave as cartoons, until they start to seem as real as my neighbors and twice as interesting. Now, having devoured A PIECE OF NORMAL and her first novel, WHAT COMES AFTER CRAZY, I'm waiting impatiently for book #3. (My husband probably hopes it's a long wait, since Shelton's books keep me up so late with the reading light on.)
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5: Wise and warm, funny and true
I loved Shelton's first book, What Comes After Crazy, but this one is even better, a great book about getting unstuck when life threatens to freeze-frame you. The characters are fully realized, and it was a joy to have them in my life while I read this book. I found myself slowing down toward the end because I didn't want the book to be over. The only thing I wish were different is the cover--the publishers have made it look rather too chick-litty, when it's so much more than that.
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