Publisher: Riverbed Books
Pages: 292
Rating: ★
Synopsis
For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated.
This is a story of the sides of ourselves that we choose to show and those we try to conceal, of the ways we tear each other down and build each other up again, and the bonds that ultimately hold us together. With wry humor and tremendous heart, Emma Straub delivers a richly satisfying story of a family in the midst of a maelstrom of change, emerging irrevocably altered yet whole.
My Thoughts
This book as been on my list since it came out last year. I was so excited to select it as my first book of the summer. I thought that it would be a great way to kick off the end of finals and the start of summer -- it was supposed to be a fun book that takes place in Mallorca, what could be better?
But I really hated this book. I don't even have anything more eloquent than that to say about it.
It was so boring. All of the characters were awful and were never given the chance to develop. I also didn't care about them at. all. There was no plot -- nothing ever happened. My day-to-day life is more exciting.
Seriously, save yourself. This book was just terrible.
My Favorite Line
It was crazy, what young people believed was possible, what so many earnest twenty-three-year-olds took for granted about the rest of their lives.
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