
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance
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Narrated by:
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Susan Boyce
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By:
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Jonathan Evison
With her husband Bernard two years in the grave, seventy-nine-year-old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover through a series of revelations that she's been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses. There, amid the buffets and lounge singers, between the imagined appearance of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter midway through the cruise, Harriet is forced to take a long look back, confronting the truth about pivotal events that changed the course of her life.
Jonathan Evison - bestselling author of West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, and All About Lulu - has crafted a bighearted novel with a supremely endearing heroine at its center. Through Harriet, he paints a bittersweet portrait of a postmodern everywoman with great warmth, humanity, and humor. Part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother/daughter relationship, nothing is what it seems in this tale of acceptance, reexamination, forgiveness, and, ultimately, healing. It is sure to appeal to admirers of Evison's previous work, as well as fans of such writers as Meg Wolitzer, Junot Diaz, and Karen Joy.
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Otherwise, wonderful!
Almost perfect
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All in all remarkably good
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A surprising delight
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Reader mispronunciation of local town names
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You can't go wrong with this read!!
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Excellent!!!
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Completely Depressing....but good
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Evison speculates on an afterlife that says humans either die into nothingness or go to a place of peace and reconciliation. Those are the only options in Evison’s story.
Evison touches every human being’s faults in “This is Your Life, Harriet Chance”. No one is exempt from human failing. Being of a certain age makes Evison’s story enlightening and entertaining. Enlightening because a listener knows they are not alone. Entertaining because a listener will enjoy Evison’s perspective on life’s journey.
A CERTAIN AGE
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Harriet has reached a time in life that is difficult. And it gets more difficult, when the average person thinks complications concerning best friends and husbands (especially dead ones) should be getting easier.
Harriet's husband has died after a trial of care taking by Harriet. She gets surprised by a cruise that her husband arranged before his death.
And then Harriet begins to discover what her life was really all about.
Something, you think, that for most people is already nailed down by the time you have reached your 70s. But not in Harriet Chance's case.
The book is artfully crafted and the plot unfolds at at good pace.
The character development is great and the narrator does a superb job of affecting several age groups and genders.
I give it 5 Stars and an endorsement for anyone who appreciates plot-driven, well written novels.
Great Character Development :)
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Disappointing read
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