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Summary: an excellent read
Review: "What A Woman Must Do" by Faith Sullivan is a wonderfully told tale that is centered by amazing characters. You are forced to read about them, but very quickly you become fascinated and eventually in love with them. For their strengths, their weaknesses and most of all for their voices. They carry this novel with grace and charm. The deep elements of love and family pull these people together forever. From an early tragedy, these woman face many trials but, it's their love for each other and the ties that bind them that keep the reader intrigued and fascinated by this book. Wonderfully written with a great voice. This author is very talented and I think it's a shame that more people don't know who she is.
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Summary: Full Of Characters You'll Come To Love
Review: "What A Woman Must Do" by Faith Sullivan is a wonderfully told tale that is centered by amazing characters. You are forced to read about them, but very quickly you become fascinated and eventually in love with them. For their strengths, their weaknesses and most of all for their voices. They carry this novel with grace and charm. The deep elements of love and family pull these people together forever. From an early tragedy, these woman face many trials but, it's their love for each other and the ties that bind them that keep the reader intrigued and fascinated by this book. Wonderfully written with a great voice. This author is very talented and I think it's a shame that more people don't know who she is.
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Summary: Loved this book!
Review: A wonderful tale of three generations of women living in Harvester, Minnesota, where Faith Sullivan's first two books also took place. Kate is 59 and has cared first for her niece Celia and now her niece's child Bess after Celia and her husband are killed. A simple woman she now looks back on her life as a farmer's wife and wonders how they lost the fdarm and life has managed to slip through her fingers. Her cousin Harriet is 39 and looking for love. Rejecting her farming family to live in a more advantageous community for work, Harriet moved in with Kate providing ming a real source of comfort to both Kate and Bess. But Harriet no longer wants to be a career woman and has fallen for a local farmer and doesn't quite know what to do. Finally there's Bess on the precipice of adult life and about to leave for college. Although she is tired of her small world, she also has ambivalent feelings about leaving home. And when a marrid man begins paying attention to her, she is really caught in a dangerous web of lies and guilt. And when Harriet announces that she soon will be soon marrying, both Kate and Bess's lives are turned upside down. This book is well written in a lovely and slow moving manner. It reminds one of other novels set in farming communities like My Antonia by Willa Cather and more recently Plainsong by Kent Haruf. I found both the plot and characters reaching put to me me from the beginning to end and continue to think about them even now. Looking forard now to reading Faith Sullivan's other books.
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Summary: A Novel that Begs to be a Play--or a Movie!
Review: Actresses like Jessica Lange, Ann Bancroft, Shirle y MacLaine, Meryl Streep and Diane Kenton should be lining up at Faith Sullivan's door! Sullivan's newest novel, What a Woman Must Do, is heart-wrenching rich in character, relationships, forgiveness, the bittersweet blessings of love, longing and inevitable loss lovingly told against the background of a small prairie town in the 1950s. In language as simple and heartfelt as a Gramma Moses painting, Sullivan gently lifts the dotted Swiss priscilla curtains on a household of three women at three different pivotal points in their lives over three summer days in 1952. We get to know them, we instanly believe in them, and in short order we care about them deeply. This is a deeply moving, and satisfying book
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Summary: A Novel that Begs to be a Play--or a Movie!
Review: Actresses like Jessica Lange, Ann Bancroft, Shirle y MacLaine, Meryl Streep and Diane Kenton should be lining up at Faith Sullivan's door! Sullivan's newest novel, What a Woman Must Do, is heart-wrenching rich in character, relationships, forgiveness, the bittersweet blessings of love, longing and inevitable loss lovingly told against the background of a small prairie town in the 1950s. In language as simple and heartfelt as a Gramma Moses painting, Sullivan gently lifts the dotted Swiss priscilla curtains on a household of three women at three different pivotal points in their lives over three summer days in 1952. We get to know them, we instanly believe in them, and in short order we care about them deeply. This is a deeply moving, and satisfying book
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Summary: The Greatest Book Ever Written in the English Language
Review: Better than Shakespeare, better than Hemingway, and certainly better than Joyce, *this* is the zenith towards which English literature has been ascending since the first Anglo-Saxon carved his bloody initials in stone. This beautiful, uplifting paean to the common woman is the finest novel I have ever read. Never before have the triumphs and sorrows of modern life been expressed in so eloquent a fashion. What a woman must do is read this book.
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Summary: an excellent read
Review: Faith Sullivan takes us back to Harvester, Minnesota in her new book. This time we get to meet a new cast of characters, three women of three different generations who are all coming to important turning points in their lives. Kate, Harriet and Bess are all captivating, well-realized and wonderful. Sullivan is a talented writer. I hope we see more from her soon! I can't wait to buy the next book!
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Summary: Over, and over again . . .
Review: I can not put this book down. It has become a ritual to read it every few months, before it slips from the memory. I need to check in on the girls, to see what is going on. A perfect read on the relationship between: life, woman and age. Each character is vividly imaginable.
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Summary: Good book but not my favorite
Review: I just finished this book and I am torn about what I feel about it. On the one hand, I really loved the characters and the character development. On the other hand, I felt it was a bit depressing and melodramatic. Especially when it had to do with Kate. I felt the descriptions of her ailments were a bit much. I would recommend this with hesitation.
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Summary: Very moving, very thoughtful
Review: If you're in a hurry, don't pick up this book. But if you want to treat yourself to a wonderful story over several days, a story about characters that grow on you and in your mind, you might consider this. The author makes you work for it, but the results are well worth the effort.
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