Florence Gordon

Oh my gosh! Florence Gordon. She's the cranky old lady we all want to be at seventy-five. Truth, above all else. Painful truth, usually. And not just to a few select folks, but them all. And to the end. Whew. Adore this book. C'mon, all you namby-pamby ladies out there...this book is for you, to buck up and take life on. And everyone else, well, I think you'll see a bit of who you could be.

I was sad to get through this book so quickly! Many chapters are a few paragraphs or pages long, so it zooms by. Unlike Dan Brown's tiny chapters of schlock and attempts at labrynthine nonsense, Brian Morton establishes rich characters and complex situations in those short spaces. Is Florence Gordon loveable? In some ways, yes, and in others, you want to bat her over the head. What she and the other characters are is real. I have already recommended this book to others and plan to read his other works!