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"Set in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts in the landmark year 2000, this novel is a group portrait of four disparate women whose personalities vary as greatly as their circumstances and ages. The four weather past and present family crises while collectively they forge emotional links that help each person refashion her life." A seventy-six-year-old real estate agent and matriarch of the group, Maddy agonizes as lung cancer claims her already embittered, Vietnam-marked son; Maddy's friend since grade school, Emily Oldfield, seventy years old, is gradually bridging relations with the estranged niece she raised as her own child ; fifty-year-old Alicia fights to reconnect her newly retired husband with their gay son; lastly, Jenny, the thirty-something artist, finds that the compelling urge for a baby destabilizes her fundamentally unequal marriage to Tim Halliwell, an internationally recognized painter.
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Jocelyn Laurin
reviewed In the Name of Friendship: A Novel on February 23, 2013
In the Name of Friendship: A Novel
I devoured Marilyn French's "The Women's Room" in the 70s. I went tot my local library looking for it to re-read, and found "In The Name of Friendship" which has been called the Women's Room II.
This book is set in the early 200s and follows a group of women who live near each other in Stevenson, MA. It is a melting pot of personalities and issues. Maddy, the Matriarch of the group who blames her family's issues on her parenting and is grieving the loss of her Vietnam damaged son. Emily, who is Maddy's oldest friend, deals with her estrangement and reconciliation of her brother's daughter she raised after he and his wife are killed in an auto accident. Alicia is trying to start Phase II of her life with her retired husband and dealing with her son coming out as gay, and her husband's reaction. Jenny is artists who is much younger (30s) that her neighbors and is dealing with a new marriage and want for a baby.
Each character has one common denominator - creatively independent, but not financially independent. Only Emily's niece, Clea, finds herself personally and professionally.
It was a good book of characters that all came together in the end when Emily's symphony (she panicked when she was making her own money) was performed. I liked the characters, but felt their stories were too wide apart. The area they lived was the glue they had, but it wasn't superglue...kept me looking for more
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