![]() ![]() Usually that would be a great thing – we want to know and invest in our tearjerker characters. In that time we get to know Mary Beth and her family. We know it can’t last, but it does, for quite some time. She talks about her friends and neighbors, her landscaping company, her daughter’s boyfriend and the general business of living her life. ![]() For a good portion of the book we plod along with her through her days as she engages in a battle of wills with her 17-year-old daughter Ruby, worries over the depression of Max, one of her 14-year-old twin boys, delights in the accomplishments of the other, Alex, and sort of dismisses her husband as bland and boring. ![]() She has a husband, three kids, a nice house in a good neighborhood and a business she owns and loves. I was looking for those tears.Įvery Last One follows, in the first person, the mid-life of Mary Beth Latham. ![]() When I opened Anna Quindlen’s Every Last One I knew full well that it wasn’t going to be some mundane tale of suburban woe. In book or movie form, we go into them knowing that they will be sad but still hoping for the best for the characters. There’s something uniquely cathartic about the tearjerker. ![]()
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