Reading Ask Me Again is like a long catch-up phone call with an old friend.
is like a long catch-up phone call with an old friend. You skip the details about the big events – the marriages, the promotions – for more intimate questions and more irreverent jokes.
Then the sheer scale of human possibility kicks in when Jamie pinches a book of poetry she’s stopped reading. And Jamie – this charming, sophisticated outcast of the upper-class Big Apple – opens up Eva’s world and everything about this book. She cottons on to class divisions, to philosophy and uncomfortable truths such as the one that whispers, “We’re all a little religious.”
She’s clever in transforming familiar observations into a novelistic style that is cosy and cheeky at the same time. As you read you’ll smirk at the jokes that are like one-liners whispered to a friend in public.
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