The first half is wonderful as it provides vignettes throughout Martha's life to give us an enriching portrait of how she's become this forty year old person heading towards her second divorce. Plot: 3 Again, it's hard to review this book because it feels like two different books jammed together. They're all developed with much more logical nuance than Martha herself eventually gets. Martha's extended family play a large role, and it was really lovely to see how her perspective on each family member evolved and changed as she grew up and saw the world through different lenses. The auxiliary characters are developed well and add much needed context and clarity to the story. Despite it moving through time in a nonlinear fashion, the Martha portrayed at the beginning of the book feels like an entirely different character than by the end of the story, and not in a good way. Really, everything about this book was better in the first half. Overall: 3Ĭharacters: 3 The characters are all much more developed and compelling in the first half of the book. At 40, she's feeling lost on what she has to show for her life and what she'll do next. Martha has been married twice, neither time happily. She's often on the outs with her family, except her sister, but she's preoccupied with lots of kids to raise. Overview: Martha is unhappy a lot of the time.
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