A young wife and mother struggles with her identity, masking her problems with drugs and risky sex, in Amy Koppelman's downbeat portrayal of suburban life I Smile Back.
Koppelman creates a fully-realized central character, and finely-tuned but bleak sketch of the American Dream, for an overall rewarding literary fiction outing.
I became interested in this novel when I learned that it would be made into a film with Sarah Silverman, who to me seems to be a good choice for the self-destructive Laney. I Smile Back was published by Two Dollar Radio, a small publishing house in nearby Columbus, Ohio, whose output I have enjoyed.
I purchased this novel from Two Dollar Radio and read it quickly, passing it on to other like-minded readers afterwards.
This was a great novel to enjoy in reaching my goal of reading fifty books by women in 2015. I wanted to seek out new voices and stories told from different perspectives, and Koppelman's work was a good example of that goal.
Koppelman creates a fully-realized central character, and finely-tuned but bleak sketch of the American Dream, for an overall rewarding literary fiction outing.
I became interested in this novel when I learned that it would be made into a film with Sarah Silverman, who to me seems to be a good choice for the self-destructive Laney. I Smile Back was published by Two Dollar Radio, a small publishing house in nearby Columbus, Ohio, whose output I have enjoyed.
I purchased this novel from Two Dollar Radio and read it quickly, passing it on to other like-minded readers afterwards.
This was a great novel to enjoy in reaching my goal of reading fifty books by women in 2015. I wanted to seek out new voices and stories told from different perspectives, and Koppelman's work was a good example of that goal.
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