Hello my lovely readers! This was a quick read. Let's get into it.
SYNOPSIS
It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Kathleen, a college tennis champion turned Delaware housewife, decides not to join her flagrantly handsome life insurance salesman husband, Virgil, or their two young boys, at church. Instead, she takes a dip in the kidney-shaped swimming pool of their apartment complex. And then she won’t come out.
A consuming, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, THE MOST breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage, immersing us in the unspoken truth beneath. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, Kathleen and Virgil hurtle towards each other until they arrive at a reckoning that will either shatter their marriage, or transform it, at last, into something real.
It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Kathleen, a college tennis champion turned Delaware housewife, decides not to join her flagrantly handsome life insurance salesman husband, Virgil, or their two young boys, at church. Instead, she takes a dip in the kidney-shaped swimming pool of their apartment complex. And then she won’t come out.
A consuming, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, THE MOST breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage, immersing us in the unspoken truth beneath. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, Kathleen and Virgil hurtle towards each other until they arrive at a reckoning that will either shatter their marriage, or transform it, at last, into something real.
MY THOUGHTS
I didn't care for this book. It clocks in at 133 pages, so I got through it fairly quick, but I was hoping for a short book that packs a punch. Also, I thought it'd take some dystopian turn with a woman not coming out of a pool, but alas, I thought wrong.
I didn't care for this book. It clocks in at 133 pages, so I got through it fairly quick, but I was hoping for a short book that packs a punch. Also, I thought it'd take some dystopian turn with a woman not coming out of a pool, but alas, I thought wrong.
I would've appreciated more depth from Kathleen and Virgil. Yes, Kathleen is clearly unhappy in her marriage and misses being Kathleen Lovelace, but I was looking for more depth in her reasoning for having other men's babies while with her husband. Oh well.
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