The Doctor’s Daughter - Hilma Wolitzer
by Zia ~ October 9th, 2006. Filed under: Books.
Alice Brill wakes up one morning with a sense that something is terribly wrong — but she’s not sure what it is. Her marriage, with its bristling hostility? Her son who is constantly in trouble? Her father, who is dying? Her mother, who died years before from breast cancer? Or perhaps that loss of her job in publishing? It is, of course, all of these — and Wolitzer measures them each in turn. The result is a rich portrait of a typical woman.
The dust jacket copy says this is Wolitzer’s first work of fiction in more that a decade — and all I can say to that is that it’s a shame. This was an amazing novel, one of those books with lush interior landscapes that make you want to crack open every person you meet and see what their stories are.