A review by litdoes
When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton
2.0
Disappointing. For a novel where relationships are central, how the narrator relates to his mother, his cousin Buddy, and with his father's first wife, Madeline, fall flat.
When Hamilton uses political affiliations to justify the divide between the characters, they appear contrived to this reader.
Like Madeline, who is raised as the narrator's sister after she suffers brain damage in an accident, the plot meanders from character to character without offering much new insight.
When Hamilton uses political affiliations to justify the divide between the characters, they appear contrived to this reader.
Like Madeline, who is raised as the narrator's sister after she suffers brain damage in an accident, the plot meanders from character to character without offering much new insight.