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S'està carregant… Sorrow and Bliss (edició 2022)de Meg Mason (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This reminded me somewhat of a novel I read a long time ago called [b:The Unnamed|6422678|The Unnamed|Joshua Ferris|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344270976l/6422678._SY75_.jpg|6611907] because the illness/condition of the main character is unnamed. I sort of felt like it was implied to be schizophrenia, but I described it to my husband and he said it could be so many different things. It doesn't really matter. Certainly, if you focus too much on naming the illness you've missed the point. Another book this made me think of is [b:First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety|34210334|First, We Make the Beast Beautiful A New Story About Anxiety|Sarah Wilson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1488372286l/34210334._SX50_.jpg|55257551] because both books are about how difficult life can be with mental illness, but they also try to celebrate how mental illness is part of who you are and some of your best qualities come from your perspective as a person who struggles sometimes. The author of FWMtBB says some people are "life naturals" and that phrase has stuck with me. Martha Friel is definitely not a life natural. One more thing: I thought this book was going to be a bummer, and while it has bummer parts for sure, it was surprisingly funny and heartwarming. Last thing, truly: I loved the audiobook narrator, particularly the way she said "room." conclusion: and we all lived happily ever after. 'Sorrow and Bliss' is every bit its title. the human dispositions are so acutely captured in its darkest, most isolating moments, with glimpses of respite in the humor of Martha’s sister, Ingrid, and the gentleness of Patrick in their early courting. Martha Friel has just turned forty and her husband Patrick, who most people would think the perfect man, has left her. this launches us back to how she got to this point, introducing us to her quirky family including her charismatic, but mostly vacant mother, her sweet natured father and her hilarious sister whose childbirth scene had me laughing so hard i was crying. and then there’s Patrick... Meg Mason spends a lot of the book on the slow near lifelong courtship of these two characters. AND to make even more complicating.... as if just finding love and just being a person isn't hard enough you have Martha’s mental health. when Martha is young something goes off in her head. something that throughout her life she manages to control, but then it creeps backs, and can leave her motionless in a ball. i loved that Meg Mason wrote a character who doesn’t get easy outs and calls Martha to task. i loved the messy, real, characters and was rooting for so many of them, identifying and laughing, and crying and empathizing. they broke my heart with sadness and put it together again with simple lovely acts of human kindness Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction! "Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. . . . While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." â?? Ann Patchett The internationally bestselling sensation, a compulsively readable novelâ??spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tenderâ??that Emma Straub has named one of her favorite books of the year Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-Ã -terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrickâ??the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happyâ??has just moved out. Because there's something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. When she was seventeen, a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. But countless doctors, endless therapy, every kind of drug later, she still doesn't know what's wrong, why she spends days unable to get out of bed or alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks. And she has nowhere to go except her childhood home: a bohemian (dilapidated) townhouse in a romantic (rundown) part of Londonâ??to live with her mother, a minorly important sculptor (and major drinker) and her father, a famous poet (though unpublished) and try to survive without the devoted, potty-mouthed sister who made all the chaos bearable back then, and is now too busy or too fed up to deal with her. But maybe, by starting over, Martha will get to write a better ending for herselfâ??and she'll find out that she's not quite f No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Super close sisters Martha (the clever one) and Ingrid (boobs and babies) share a bohemian upbringing with mum, minorly important sculptor and drinker Celia Barry predominantly locked away in her repurposing shed, and dad, study-bound poet Fergus Russell struggling with his long overdue anthology when not packing his bags. All-night parties, half-finished projects and grilled pork chops are the norm until a little bomb goes off in Martha’s brain when she is seventeen.
Meg Mason manages to temper serious issues (the different specialists, different diagnoses, different advice and different prescriptions; the stigma and discrimination attached to mental illness and its consequences; the devastating effect on both the afflicted and their loved ones; depression and dysfunction) with humour (full-on family festivities with Aunt Winsome, all things Jonathan Parker, text emojis - aubergine, cherries and open scissors!) and tender, heartfelt moments (alphabet stories, shared strips of comfort flannel, the meaning of motherhood and the lost little boy that was Patrick) as we follow Martha on her journey of self discovery.
A totally immersive, extremely moving and thought-provoking read.
Soul-searching, sad and smiley. ( )