This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

A Novel

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Jonathan Evison: This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! (2016, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2016 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

ISBN:
978-1-61620-601-7
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4 stars (1 review)

Embarking on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise, septuagenarian Harriet reunites with her estranged daughter and confronts pivotal events from her life surrounding the true character of her husband, who died two years earlier.

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4 stars

I enjoyed the author's style, especially the use of the 2nd person. The story and characters were well-developed, but I felt that the revelations at the end weren't well foreshadowed and made some of the other events and revelations less believable and more puzzling. I'm not sure what the author was trying to get at with this book, really. However, there was enough to like that I would read other works by this author.

Subjects

  • Widows, fiction
  • Mothers and daughters, fiction
  • Fiction, family life
  • Fiction, humorous, general