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The Inseparables

de Stuart Nadler

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After the sudden death of her husband, 70-year-old Henrietta Olyphant is broke and unmoored. Her daughter Oona is mid-divorce. Meanwhile, Oona's teenager Lydia, away at boarding school, faces accusations involving a viral nude photo. In the wake of the upheaval, these tough, independent women find themselves under one roof. Together the three generations sift through the mess, and emerge renewed.… (mais)
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Whole lot of sub plots, beautiful writing and the novel moves. Each chapter has you wanting more. One negative was Lydia's voice which I questioned if it actually sounded like a teenager. Nonetheless, a great read on family. ( )
  kvschnitzer | Dec 8, 2019 |
I liked parts if this book and it was well written. Maybe if I had read it before the "me too" movement I would have felt differently. Wanted to read about stronger women. For example, Henrietta, the grandmother, smart, a college professor, had written a book which embarrassed her for the rest of her life. Rather than move on her only reference for her existence was her now deceased husband. There were many other things in the book that bothered me but don't want to get caught up in criticizing it. Suffice it to say, well written but characters I don't need to know about. ( )
  debann6354 | Feb 7, 2018 |
Eine Familie, drei Frauen, dreimal Probleme mit Männern: Henrietta Olyphant, die Großmutter, einst erfolgreiche Feminismus-Dozentin und Autorin, hat vor knapp einem Jahr ihren Mann verloren und muss nun das Haus verlassen, in dem sie über 40 Jahre gelebt haben und wo ihre Tochter zur Welt kam. Die Trauer überwiegt alles bis sie plötzlich mit Dingen konfrontiert wird, die das Bild von ihrem Mann gehörig ins Wanken bringen. Oona ist gerade wieder bei ihrer Mutter eingezogen, da sie sich von ihrem Mann Spencer trennen will. Als erfolgreiche Chirurgin kann sie nicht länger mit ansehen, wie er dauerbekifft seine Tage in Unproduktivität verbringt. Als der Paartherapeut ihr Avancen macht, scheint ein Neuanfang möglich. Die Jüngste im Bunde, Lydia, ist ebenfalls auf dem Weg nach Hause, weg aus ihren Luxusinternat, wo gerade ein Nacktbild von ihr die Runde macht, das ihr vermeintlicher Freund von ihrem Handy geklaut und verbreitet hat. So finden sie sich zusammen, jede mit ihren ganz eigenen Problemen und der Erkenntnis, dass sie einander mehr brauchen als sie dachten.

Was womöglich nach einem sehr seichten Frauenbuch klingt, ist tatsächlich ein wahrer erzählerischer Schatz, den man ob des unsäglich aussagelosen Covers leicht übersehen könnte – was vermutlich auch der Fall ist, denn mir ist der Roman bislang selten begegnet. Dabei hat der Roman wirklich viele Leser verdient, ist er doch die perfekte Symbiose aus ernsthafter Thematik, die in ihrer Komplexität auch überzeugend herausgestellt wird, und einem leichten, oftmals geradezu komischen Erzählton.

Die drei Frauenfiguren sind miteinander verwandt, damit hören die Gemeinsamkeiten aber auch schon auf. Sie zeichnen sich jeweils als recht typische Vertreterinnen ihrer Generation aus ohne dabei stereotyp zu werden. Henrietta erscheint zunächst als klassische Großmutter, die ihren Beruf und Karriereträume für den Mann und die Familie geopfert hatte, weil es die Gesellschaft so von ihr erwartete. So einfach ist der Fall jedoch nicht. Es ist ihr gar nicht so schwergefallen, New York und die Universität zu verlassen und ein ganz anderes Leben zu leben als sie geplant hatte. Die Tatsache, dass sie als junge Frau ein Buch über den weiblichen Körper mit expliziten Zeichnungen veröffentlichte, das immer noch nachgefragt wird, lässt sie in einem interessanten Licht erscheinen. Heute ist ihr das Buch peinlich, vor allem gegenüber ihrer Tochter und Enkelin.

Letztere wiederum amüsiert sich geradezu über die großmütterliche Scham, hat sie im Internet schon weitaus Eindeutigeres gesehen. Das mindert aber in keiner Weise die Scham, die sie selbst empfindet ob der von ihr verbreiteten Fotos. Auch sie steckt in einem Zwiespalt, denn eigentlich mag sie Charlie, auch jetzt noch, obwohl er sie hintergangen hat. Auch hier wieder der Fall eines Mädchens, das in eine für ihre Generation recht typische Situation gerät und doch keine 08/15-Lösung sich anbietet. Zu komplex sind ihre Gefühle und die familiäre Lage mit den sich trennenden Eltern. Sie findet Unterstützung und Rat – aber sind der kiffende Vater und die gerade fremdgehende Mutter die besten Ansprechpartner in Beziehungsfragen?

Oona letztlich als Frau im mittleren Alter vereinigt ebenfalls die Komplexität von Beziehung, Familienbande und Beruf in einer Figur. Weder hasst sie ihren Noch-Mann, noch kann sie mit ihm so weiterleben. Sie will sowohl ihrer Mutter wie auch ihrer Tochter beistehen und das, wo sie selbst gerade im emotionalen Chaos steckt. Da hilft nur die sachlich-nüchterne Seite der Ärztin rauskehren, aber wenn man gerade eine Umarmung braucht, ist das auch nicht so hilfreich.

Das Buch lebt von seinen Figuren und ihren Dialogen. Sie sind Familie, da wird der Ton auch mal harsch und man mutet dem anderen mehr zu als man dies bei Fremden tun würde. Und doch: sie sind für einander da und wissen, was sie gerade brauchen. Und dabei verlieren sie auch Humor und Sarkasmus nicht. Ein in jeder Hinsicht gelungener Roman. ( )
  miss.mesmerized | Jan 6, 2018 |
This is the story of three generations of women in one family - Henrietta (grandmother), Oona (daughter), and Lydia (granddaughter), all of whom are sad and/or distressed in some way. Contains lots of inner musings and was boring to read. I didn't find any of the characters particularly interesting, nor did I find it "funny" as so many of the critics' blurbs on the cover said. I was left with just a blah feeling. ( )
  flourgirl49 | Sep 15, 2017 |
I received this novel as part of a promotion.

Three women in varying stages of life and varying conflicts that occupy their lives form the thematic center of this novel. Henrietta, a post-modern feminist having given up academia to live on a farm in rural Massachusetts with her chef husband, is recently widowed and facing the very real threat of poverty. Her daughter Oona has separated from her pothead husband and is coming to grips with her loneliness, the prospect of dating other men, and her mother's reluctance to end her mourning. Her daughter Lydia, a gifted teen, is reeling from the fallout of having a nude picture of her stolen and published on the internet, and is back home, partly to hibernate and mourn, partly to plan her revenge, and partly to plan her future, all while having to deal with her father's moroseness and bitterness and her mother's absence from her home.

The novel's chapters alternate points of view of its characters, and the author shines in elucidating their personalities. Take for example the first sentences that open the first of Lydia's chapters: "It was Monday, not that it mattered, rain falling, weak light through the dead trees on Mount Thumb....The iron arched gates of Hartwell Academy passed overhead, rusted and bearing a carved Latin inscription that meant either "Truth and Wisdom in Learning" or something like "Forget What You Thought: This Is The Place Where You Will Truly Actually Learn to Feel Deep Shame and Humiliation about Your Body." This perspective perfectly captures Lydia's cynicism, mood and frame of mind, teenage sarcasm and angst, and cloudy dim view of her future.

Not much happens over the course of about a week, which is the novel's purview, but whereas in other books I have reeled from the sheer boredom of passing pages and pages with no plot development whatsoever (see my review of The Fifth Petal), here the author captures the reader's attention with the inner and outer conflicts of the characters so well I barely notice nothing has happened in 5 pages.

The writing is funny, touching, lively, and vibrant. The characters are complex. Lydia isn't, for example, your typical teenager. She has the typical cynicism, yet still yearns for her mother's presence and and her father's well-being. Spencer is a pothead with a deep addiction problem he won't admit to, but he also has a fierce undying protectiveness of his baby that sends both of them on a road trip to solve the problem at hand. The passage where he explains to his daughter how to him she is still his little baby girl is tremendously moving, maybe more so because Lydia, and perhaps the reader, hadn't thought him capable of such deep thought on the subject. Another particularly moving element involves Oona's actions surrounding a note her father had written to her mother, whose outcome rounds out the last pages of the novel.

What we do for others; what we do to others, and the complicated and sometimes tragic consequences of our working through our shortcomings and challenges: these are the great themes of the novel. I was reminded of other novels like "The Interestings" and "Fates and Furies," which also deal very well with relationships and inner struggles. ( )
  ChayaLovesToRead | Feb 28, 2017 |
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After the sudden death of her husband, 70-year-old Henrietta Olyphant is broke and unmoored. Her daughter Oona is mid-divorce. Meanwhile, Oona's teenager Lydia, away at boarding school, faces accusations involving a viral nude photo. In the wake of the upheaval, these tough, independent women find themselves under one roof. Together the three generations sift through the mess, and emerge renewed.

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