We Are All Fine Here

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Summary: A fantastic debut - We want more!!!
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When I first read a review of this book, I thought this is a book I have to have as it sounds interesting and the author lives in the town where I lived for the majority of the 1990s. So when my husband was near a local bookstore a few hours later, I asked him to pick it up for me. I was surprised when he got it home and it was so, well, small. I thought I had wasted my money on this tiny little book that I didn't know much about. I had even thought of returning it.

But this was an amazing little book. It was so full of stark reality and LOL funny in some places. She had a dark sense of humor which I really enjoyed. Basically, Julia is a woman caught between two men - Jim, the one she married after she got pregnant with his child 16 years previously and Ray, her college sweetheart who she has never gotten out of her mind. When he calls her and asks her to accompany him to the wedding of old friends, she jumps at the chance not only to see many people she's lost touch with, but to spend time with Ray-her true love. But when she gets pregnant and doesn't know who the father might be as she also had one of her rare sexual encounters with her husband during this same time, things get, well, complicated.

Mary Guterson, sister of Snow Falling on Cedars author David Guterson, has an acerbic wit, and is often sarcastic as well as blunt as she writes in Julia's point of view. My only complaint is that the book could have been longer and suffered from a few typos that threw me out of the story; but those are minor quibbles in the bigger scheme of things. I will be waiting with baited breath for her next book


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Summary: Loved it!
Review: Just read an advance copy of this book and could not put it down--don't be fooled by a cliched chick lit cover, it's incredibly moving.

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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Mary Guterson's first novel is a hilarious and moving look at middle aged life. I highly recommend it to all. Be prepared, though, for a book that you will not be able to put down!

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Summary: Fantastic Book!
Review: This is an amazing book about people and relationships. The author does and incredible job of making the characters and their feelings seem so real, using a combination of subtle and direct in a way that is really absorbing.