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Our Kind: A Novel in Stories
Kate Walbert
Scribner
January 2005
On Sale: December 28, 2004
208 pages
ISBN: 0743245601
EAN: 9780743245609
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From the award-winning author of The Gardens of Kyoto
comes this witty and incisive novel about the lives and
attitudes of a group of women -- once country-club
housewives; today divorced, independent, and breaking the
rules. In Our Kind, Kate Walbert masterfully
conveys the dreams and reality of a group of women who came
into the quick rush of adulthood, marriage, and
child-bearing during the 1950s. Narrating from the heart of
ten companions, Walbert subtly depicts all the anger,
disappointment, vulnerability, and pride of her characters:
"Years ago we were led down the primrose lane, then
abandoned somewhere near the carp pond." Now alone, with
their own daughters grown, they are finally free -- and
ready to take charge: from staging an intervention for the
town deity to protesting the slaughter of the country club's
fairway geese, to dialing former lovers in the dead of
night. Walbert's writing is quick-witted and wry, just
like her characters, but also, in its cumulative effect,
moving and sad. Our Kind is a brilliant,
thought-provoking novel that opens a window into the world
of a generation and class of women caught in a cultural limbo.
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