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Amazing Grace Adams: The New York Times Bestseller and Read With Jenna Book Club Pick

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The author mentions in her parting note that this plot is inspired by the movie ‘Falling Down’, so perhaps fans of that movie might like to give this a try. This is a very powerful book, but you can't have any preconceived expectations about it and you have to let it come together without being frustrated.

So when she’s stuck in a traffic jam, at the prime perimenopausal age of 45, she exits her car and walks away. Told in three timelines, the book takes on a frantic, chaotic feel, but I honestly think that is what the author was going for. The journey leads to a look back on her life, the choices she has made, and how she got to where she is now. However as the story progressed, I realised how cleverly the author had written about a woman in mid-life, struggling on so many fronts, losing herself as she becomes totally overwhelmed. In 2002, Grace Adams was an AMAZING woman-a polyglot who spoke 5 languages and was also beautiful, competitive and impulsive.

The author used time as a device to help fill out the whole story, constantly flashing back to several different time periods that are critical to understanding what is happening now in the present. Often manic, and rarely funny, this one didn’t quite work for me, but it also has many 5 star reviews, so it just might resonate with you. This is beautifully written and raw multilayered storytelling, about the contemporary realities of women's lives, the prevalent and pertinent issues present in our society, marriage, being a mother, the everyday burdens and struggles that weigh heavy.

She can hear the hiccuping beat of a track on the radio, the bone-judder of drilling from the roadworks ahead.In all of the frenetic energy, drama, and conflict, there was no opportunity to connect with the characters. While this story is a bit over the top at times (in the best way) there is something very relatable about Grace Adams and her struggles to be a good wife, mom, career woman, etc.

Not to mention the THREE timelines we had to keep track of and how disjointed that made the reading experience. I had mixed feelings when reading about Grace Adams, a perimenopausal language teacher with a disintegrating marriage and a challenging relationship with her fifteen-year-old daughter. Some parts of it were really good but I wish the author wouldn’t have tried to throw in so many themes into a single plot. Amazing Grace Adams is a fully realized story of catastrophe and joy, grief and love, and the hidden chambers of the human heart that carry the best and worst of our experience. The book has a good portrayal of Grace's teenage daughter who is over her head in social media and involved in a toxic relationship.Amazing Grace Adams," a debut novel by British author Fran Littlewood, is the story of one woman's no good, very bad day. Today, 45-year-old Grace is a frustrated lady who, one day, just snaps and walks out of her car that is stuck in heavy traffic. Heartbreaking: This story deals with a sexual predator at her daughter school who gets involved with Lotte and three other unsuspecting students. On a hot summer day, whilst stuck in traffic en route to collect her daughter’s sixteenth birthday cake, she decides that enough is enough. Unfortunately, Grace Adams herself is whiny, self-indulgent, and just not likable enough to carry the book.

meet Amazing Grace Adams, the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink—who finally pushes back.She will exit her car and abandon it-determined that she will pick up her daughter’s birthday cake and deliver it to her party on time- despite the fact that she wasn’t invited and EVEN if she has to walk the rest of the way to her ex husband’s new flat, carrying the cake the rest of the way there! The novel is studded with flashbacks that gradually reveal Grace’s story, and the early days of her relationship with her husband, Ben, are evoked with a beguiling mix of tenderness and humour. She contemplates, not happily, the aging process as she is now perimenopausal and that her life is on a distinctly downwards trajectory. She's about to set off on a journey to rediscover who she is, and confront the secret that has torn her family apart. While it is easy to admire her stance of standing for herself, her attitude and her approach towards problems didn’t endear her to me.

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