Name: The Golden State
ISBN: 9781925774610

Lydia Kiesling

A breakout debut novel featured in the US by Buzzfeed, Elle, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, about a young woman navigating the worlds of the private and the political in a fractured America.

The Golden State

Sarah Sammis

The 225 or so pages before the actual plot is bloated with the mundane details of day to day life. Most of these details are centered on the minutia of Honey's life: what she eats, what she vomits, when she needs her diaper changed, what kind of mess in said diaper. Etc. The second favorite filler is the physical demands of motherhood. We get all the details of what it's like to be pregnant, to postpartum bleeding, the first period, breast feeding, etc., etc.

Here's the thing, I've been there and done that. I'm not sure what entertainment or literary enlightenment I'm getting by reading through these laundry lists of life. Frankly, it's boring. It was so boring that before Daphne had even met Alice, I no longer cared about anyone in the book.

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