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The bestselling author of Labor Day returns with a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange twists of fate that shape our lives The Good Daughters ...
Two families, the Planks and the Dickersons, are mysteriously entwined in this exquisite novel that centers on decades of life at a New Hampshire farm. Youngest daughters Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson, born on the same day in the same hospital, take turns narrating the struggles they face as children. Ruth feels a coldness from her mother; Dana is unsettled by her kooky parents constantly uprooting her and her brother Ray. Regardless, the Planks pay a yearly visit to the Dickersons no matter where they've ended up living. As the girls come of age, Ruth takes an interest in art, sex, and Dana's brother, Ray, with whom she later reunites, at Woodstock, in a swirl of drugs and mud. Meanwhile, Dana realizes that her desires are directed toward women and sets off to pursue agricultural studies at a university, where she meets Clarice, an assistant professor. As time goes by, the floundering Plank Farm is in danger of being seized by Ruth's former boyfriend, a man who has had his eye on the land for years. As Ruth and Dana pursue love, contemplate children, and search for home, the truth of what unites their families is finally--at long last--revealed, in this beautifully written book. (Sept.)
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Lauren Beatty
reviewed The Good Daughters on December 29, 2010
The Good Daughters
SPOILER ALERT. If you haven't read the book and you don't want spoiler, don't read this.
The more I thought about, the more I knew I had to change this to a one-star rating. Don't even bother with this book. Here's what really ticks me off about the book -- after getting 3/4 of the way through it, I find out the entire story is based on a stupid, flimsy premise. I figured out pretty early on that the two "birthday sisters" (which is what the one mother called them since they were born on the same day at the same hospital), were actually switched at birth. But the stupid thing is that at least one of the mothers knew it, and the father knew it, and they didn't do anything about it, and the one mother who knew it accepted it. Then what's even more stupid is that the father who knew the babies were switched wanted to keep it that way because he had actually fathered both babies. So here's this man whose character is portrayed as a solid guy, hard-working farmer, and good father, who actually had a one-night stand with a woman, impregnated her, and went home and impregnated his wife. And the wife stood for it? On top of that, the one daughter fell in love was the other daughter's brother and they lived together and had mad, passionate sex - but they were siblings and didn't know it (Of course, it wasn't a surprise to me because I had already figured it out). By the end of the book, it was as if I just watched a really really bad soap opera. So, don't bother with this book - it's a complete waste of time.
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