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Truely Noonan is the quintessential Southern boy made good. Like his older sister, Courtney, Truely left behind the slow, sweet life of Mississippi for jet-set San Francisco, where he earned a fortune as an Internet entrepreneur. Courtney and Truely each find happy marriages -- until, as if cursed by success, those marriages start to crumble. Then their lives are interrupted by an unexpected stranger: a troubled teenager named Arnold, garrulous, charming, thuggishly dressed, and determined to move in to their world. Arnold turns their lives upside down, and in the process this unlikely trio becomes the family that each had been searching for. In the best Southern fiction tradition, Kincaid has brought us an inspiring story about finding the way home.… (mais)
this looked like it would be a charming, quirky character driven book, and it was for the first 1/4. Then it became predictable, trite and preachy. Too bad! my run of great reads has ended! On to the next... ( )
This charming novel doesn't break any new ground, but its affirmation that opening one's heart to another person is the surest way to open our owns was lovely. Long a fan of Nanci Kincaid's novels, most notably Balls and Verbena, I was surprised and delighted to find another fresh voice from her. Some novelists -- even the great ones -- have a recognizable style and pattern that becomes predictable over time, but not Nanci. What a treat! ( )
The story follows a brother and sister who've relocated out of the South and yet spend the rest of their life dealing with that disconnection. Kincaid does her best to coax you into believing this Souther malaise; however, it made me severely disconnected from the characters and the story as a whole. I wanted to scream at them go back to the South, which they never do. It had a great start, but somewhere before the middle turned into Faulkner meets SNL's the whiners. ( )
Truely and Courtney Noonan are wonderfully drawn sympathetic but flawed characters. Although they are from Mississippi, this is not what I would call a southern novel. They are transplants to California, Courtney first and Truely follows, much to the dismay of their parents. They each seem to have found their ideal mates and for a while, they have. These losses actually bring the siblings back together and the bond they share is a lot soul, a teenage black boy named Arthur. Kincaid creates wonderful characters and shows how we can create our own families. ( )
I was expecting this to be a quirky Southern novel, which would have been fun. But it was actually a compelling (but in no ways didactic) exploration of what happens when Southerners leave the South as well as an exploration of race and class. Great characters, smooth writing. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
After the feast comes the reckoning -- Proverb
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
for my husband
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Hinds County needed rain. Heat rose to nearly a hundred degrees most afternoons.
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Somewhere between Arnold third Double-Double and second large fries he leaned over, put his arm around Truely's shoulders and asked, "So, when me and you going home, man?"
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Truely Noonan is the quintessential Southern boy made good. Like his older sister, Courtney, Truely left behind the slow, sweet life of Mississippi for jet-set San Francisco, where he earned a fortune as an Internet entrepreneur. Courtney and Truely each find happy marriages -- until, as if cursed by success, those marriages start to crumble. Then their lives are interrupted by an unexpected stranger: a troubled teenager named Arnold, garrulous, charming, thuggishly dressed, and determined to move in to their world. Arnold turns their lives upside down, and in the process this unlikely trio becomes the family that each had been searching for. In the best Southern fiction tradition, Kincaid has brought us an inspiring story about finding the way home.
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