An ACTUAL LIFE

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Summary: Funny, bittersweet, & hard to stop reading
Review: Virginia is a lovable, passive, 50s good girl who "had to get married" to the uncommunicative Buddy. She loves her baby daughter, but marriage seems lonely and disappointing. Her awakening into the complexities of love and life--and to her own freedom--is revealed by the author with great subtlety through Virginia's own very entertaining observations and experiences. Funny and ultimately moving, this is a "period piece" that anyone from any time period who's ever found themselves "trapped" in the wrong relationship will identify with. I missed Virginia when the book was over, and would love to know what happened to her next.

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Summary: This what a shotgun wedding will do for you
Review: What a perfect title for this book since there are really marriages and lives that are actually like this. Back in the fifties when a teenage girl got herself "in trouble", she "had to" get married and deal with the rest of her life as well as be a good mother. Well that's exactly what this story is about. There are some very good messages in this story and is very worth reading as well as enjoyable since the author leaned a little bit towards the comical look at life. The husband's close relationship to an ex-girlfriend is enough to make any of us female, married readers want to slap him or her. The end of this story is SO imaginative and surprising. Get this book, you'll enjoy it and it's a quick moving easy read.