Review: Clock Dance

Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

If this is what older women's fiction is like when I get really old, I don't want to get old. I felt like I was slogging through it--I wanted to tell Willa to get a backbone. This novel gives us Willa's life story. It is rather boring and that of a typical woman, but she does make (to my eyes) horrible decisions about the men in her life and her other major life choices. When she does finally get some gumption, it didn't feel realistic, because I'm not sure if people change that much later in life? Do they?

And the whole knife/airplane scene was just freaking ridiculous.

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