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A review by life_full_ofbooks
Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger
5.0
4.75- Oh what a wonderful character driven family drama Susan Rieger has given us! Told in three parts from multiple third person views makes this book one of the most riveting books I’ve read so far this year.
Like Mother, Like Mother follows three generations of women, Zelda, whose husband put her in a mental hospital when her youngest child, Lila, was two. Lila, who grew up to be a formidable woman who found her place in a profession filled with men, and Grace, Lila’s youngest daughter who, for being or worse, is just like her mother. It’s a great look at the ties that bind and shows how the trauma of one in an earlier generation can trickle down to affect one in a later generation.
The book is broken up into 3 parts and while each part focuses on one of the women parts of the other women’s stories are their, told through the eyes of the one in whose part we are reading. While this is fiction, there are many politicians and current events that take place throughout the book, making it feel more real than fiction.
I absolutely loved how this was written and I loved nearly every character. I especially loved the realness of the characters. While I found them to be likable, they were definitely flawed. For a fictional story I found this to be one of the most real books I’ve read in a while.
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House The Dial Press for an advanced copy of this. Like Mother, Like Mother hits the shelves on October 29th.
Like Mother, Like Mother follows three generations of women, Zelda, whose husband put her in a mental hospital when her youngest child, Lila, was two. Lila, who grew up to be a formidable woman who found her place in a profession filled with men, and Grace, Lila’s youngest daughter who, for being or worse, is just like her mother. It’s a great look at the ties that bind and shows how the trauma of one in an earlier generation can trickle down to affect one in a later generation.
The book is broken up into 3 parts and while each part focuses on one of the women parts of the other women’s stories are their, told through the eyes of the one in whose part we are reading. While this is fiction, there are many politicians and current events that take place throughout the book, making it feel more real than fiction.
I absolutely loved how this was written and I loved nearly every character. I especially loved the realness of the characters. While I found them to be likable, they were definitely flawed. For a fictional story I found this to be one of the most real books I’ve read in a while.
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House The Dial Press for an advanced copy of this. Like Mother, Like Mother hits the shelves on October 29th.