The Hurricane Sisters
Dorothea Benton Frank
Morrow, Jun 3 2014,
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062132529
In Charleston, South Carolina, sandwiched
generation Liz struggles with her family.
Her recently turned eighty mom Maisie remains the opinionated family
matriarch while always disapproving of her and encouraging her
grandchildren. Liz’s apparently
philandering husband Clayton prefers to stay in New York more than in
Lowcountry. Finally the lifestyles of her
adult children bother her; as her oldest Ivy resides in San Francisco with his
beloved mate James and her recent college grad daughter Ashley remains wistful in
a cloud state of mind. Her only
satisfaction is her work at a preventing
domestic violence at a not for profit.
Liz worries most about Ashley who works at a
gallery while painting. Ashley and her
BFF Mary Beth have a scheme to make money that seems doomed to fail and
most likely illegal. Her affair with State Senator Porter Galloway appears ready to
implode even as the dreamer ignores her friend and her gut preferring to believe
one day she will be First Lady to her lover’s POTUS.
Though somewhat disjointed while rotating
perspective between the four fully-developed family members living in
Lowcountry, readers obtain diverse views on the same incident as the theory of
relativity filters each person’s perception.
The dysfunctional family dynamics storyline engages the audience
especially the realistic older three; while Ashley acts more like a young
teenybopper than a college graduate even when she emulates her mom’s acceptance
of crap from the man in her life.
Harriet Klausner
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