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Our Kind

Kate Walbert

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#3020 of 8,085 books · #1444 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (2004).

In Our Kind, Kate Walbert conveys the dreams and reality of a group of women who came into the quick rush of adulthood, marriage, and child-bearing during the 1950s. Narrating from the heart of ten companions, Walbert depicts all the anger, disappointment, vulnerability, and pride of her characters: "Years ago we were led down the primrose lane, then abandoned somewhere near the carp pond." Now alone, with their own daughters grown, they are finally free - and ready to take charge: from staging an intervention for the town deity to protesting the slaughter of the country club's fairway geese, to dialing former lovers in the dead of night.

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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-13
9780743245609
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Female friendshipAging and identity1950s womanhood

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