Are You Somebody

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Summary: Need a Broom to Sweep up all the Names Dropped
Review: Being "one generation off the Bog", I purchased this book with some anticipation of delight. Unfortunately I found none. I found the book rambling, boring and fragmented. O'Faolain touches on her family's issues and relationship strains but fails to make them interesting enough to care about. She touches on her challenges as a female professional in modern day Ireland but fails to delve deeply enough for the reader to draw any conclusion. She bounces around the father-daughter conflict but so tepidly it made me think she was afraid to hurt his feelings. Each issue or topic she touched, she did so lightly, leaving the reader without anything to chew on.
She occassionally has writing great moments, making it clear her writing is far superior to what she presents in this book. I am disappointed she didn't treat us to more of it.