Our Kind: A Novel in Stories

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Our Kind: A Novel in Stories

From the award-winning author of The Gardens of Kyoto comes this witty and incisive novel about the lives and attitudes of a group of womenâ€”once country-club housewives; today divorced, independent, and breaking the rules.

In Our Kind, Kate Walbert masterfully conveys the dreams and reality of a group of women who came into the quick rush of adulthood, marriage, and child-bearing during the 1950s. Narrating from the heart of ten companions, Walbert subtly depicts all the anger, disappointment, vulnerability, and pride of her characters: "Years ago we were led down the primrose lane, then abandoned somewhere near the carp pond."

Now alone, with their own daughters grown, they are finally freeâ€”and ready to take charge: from staging an intervention for the town deity to protesting the slaughter of the country club's fairway geese, to dialing former lovers in the dead of night.

Walbert's writing is quick-witted and wry, just like her characters, but also, in its cumulative effect, moving and sad. Our Kind is a brilliant, thought-provoking novel that opens a window into the world of a generation and class of women caught in a cultural limbo.

Country	USA
Author	Kate Walbert
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781416586449
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
NumberOfPages	216
PublicationDate	2007-11-01
Publisher	Scribner
ReleaseDate	2007-11-01
Studio	Scribner

Our Kind: A Novel in Stories

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