Acting Out : A Novel

Rating:
Summary: Good storyteller, whiny main character
Review: The only reason I gave this book three stars is because I liked the flow it had to it. The author can effectively tell a story. However, I could not get into the main character at all. In my opinion the author did a good job of making Ina out to be a whining, selfish woman who, if in the back of her head knew that the married/children life was not for her, should not have made the choices she did. No one is to blame for her unhappiness but herself. Yes, her husband is a rat, however throughout the book it was as if Ina's main problem was not her husband's infedelity but rather her unhappiness with who SHE had become. The woman was unhappy because she chose to be. Throughout the book she complains almost non stop about the dredges of motherhood, but what did she really expect? No one forced her to "give up her dreams" and no one forced her to marry her husband. And only a selfish person would leave her children for one week after her husband leaves her (as if they haven't been abandoned already.)So while I enjoyed the writing, I really did not like the main character.