Book Review Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
Labor Day was a far better than I thought it would be: it was wonderful. It was so wonderful that I read it in one sitting. I couldn't put it down.
The tale is of a boy and his emotionally broken mother. The woman has only one reason to live: her son. She cares for him as well as she is able, and he loves her as deeply as a son can love his mother. Over Labor Day weekend, she takes a chance and brings home a stranger in need of help. A stranger with a dark secret. Their lives change forever, with joy and sadness. As the son sees the change in his mother over the next four days, his range of emotions is what one would expect to see: joy, confusion, anger, and guilt.
This book is one of those tales that make you want to believe that all people are inherently good, and many are simply misunderstood and in need of another chance. It makes the heartbroken have hope for the One to stumble into their lives. It gives hope for the human race, just by the tale of three people over a holiday weekend.
The novel was well-written, full of emotions with more depth than I have read in a novel in a long time. The characters are real and yet as mysterious as the relationship between adults would be to a 13-year-old boy.
The prose was beautiful. The progress of the plot was halting at times, but it added to the telling rather than hindering it. It was a wonderful book, worthy of reading again and again.
The tale is of a boy and his emotionally broken mother. The woman has only one reason to live: her son. She cares for him as well as she is able, and he loves her as deeply as a son can love his mother. Over Labor Day weekend, she takes a chance and brings home a stranger in need of help. A stranger with a dark secret. Their lives change forever, with joy and sadness. As the son sees the change in his mother over the next four days, his range of emotions is what one would expect to see: joy, confusion, anger, and guilt.
This book is one of those tales that make you want to believe that all people are inherently good, and many are simply misunderstood and in need of another chance. It makes the heartbroken have hope for the One to stumble into their lives. It gives hope for the human race, just by the tale of three people over a holiday weekend.
The novel was well-written, full of emotions with more depth than I have read in a novel in a long time. The characters are real and yet as mysterious as the relationship between adults would be to a 13-year-old boy.
The prose was beautiful. The progress of the plot was halting at times, but it added to the telling rather than hindering it. It was a wonderful book, worthy of reading again and again.
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