Lauren J Sharkey
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Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.Rowan is adopted from China by good intentioned parents. A lack of open communication between Rowan and her mother create a heart-breaking rift. Mom assumes Rowan understands her parenting style with its focus on Rowan becoming a strong, independent adult. Rowan doesn't get it at all.
She whines and criticizes her mother. She comes off as a bit of a demanding diva BUT... her mother works many hours care-giving, cooking for, and nurturing some of the neighborhood children. This greatly reduces much-needed maternal time for Rowan. Despite Rowan's obvious jealousy, Mother misguidedly doesn't feel the need to change or modify her work schedule.
I believe it is this that causes major problems for Rowan in the future.
Good but sad read; a bit disappointing.… (mehr)
She whines and criticizes her mother. She comes off as a bit of a demanding diva BUT... her mother works many hours care-giving, cooking for, and nurturing some of the neighborhood children. This greatly reduces much-needed maternal time for Rowan. Despite Rowan's obvious jealousy, Mother misguidedly doesn't feel the need to change or modify her work schedule.
I believe it is this that causes major problems for Rowan in the future.
Good but sad read; a bit disappointing.… (mehr)
Rowan only knows life living in suburban Long Island, but everyone seems to identify her as Korean. She was adopted from Korea by her Catholic parents and knows nothing of Korea. She worries that she’s never been wanted, and like a teenager doesn’t know how to deal with that other than by isolating herself from those who care about her. The first-person narrative does an excellent job in portraying roan’s loneliness and search for identity. It seems a little uneven and that is distracting.
It is quite hard to review this book, which wasn;t dissimilar to the last book I read, Pizza Girl - both had a young protagonist with roots in South Korea and was deeply lost and confused.
Rowan has a really odd relationship with her adopted mother, and I was never sure if the mother was horrible or if Rowan was unreasonable - this relationship wasn't explored quite enough for me. But when Rowan finally leaves home, she ends up in a horribly abusive relationship, and when she drops out of college she has a series of unpleasant encounters with men she meets online.
Like Pizza Girl, Rowan was a frustrating character for me and I couldn;t quite understand what her motivation was and why she seemed to hate her mother so much. The book also jumps about quite a lot and major events are brushed over really quickly. I felt it needed a bit more depth, and the ending felt really rushed.
A very quick read but slightly unsatisfying.… (mehr)
Rowan has a really odd relationship with her adopted mother, and I was never sure if the mother was horrible or if Rowan was unreasonable - this relationship wasn't explored quite enough for me. But when Rowan finally leaves home, she ends up in a horribly abusive relationship, and when she drops out of college she has a series of unpleasant encounters with men she meets online.
Like Pizza Girl, Rowan was a frustrating character for me and I couldn;t quite understand what her motivation was and why she seemed to hate her mother so much. The book also jumps about quite a lot and major events are brushed over really quickly. I felt it needed a bit more depth, and the ending felt really rushed.
A very quick read but slightly unsatisfying.… (mehr)
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This book begins as a rather humorous young adult book, but gradually deals with emotional and complex issues of self-esteem. To make the story flow a little more smoothly, I would have appreciated a more in-depth look at the relationship between Rowan and her mother.… (mehr)