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A review by yangyvonne
Daughters of the Revolution by Carolyn Cooke
3.0
This book spans almost 50 years and involves a private high school that is changing with the times and enrolling minorities and girls. But, the book is less about the school than the people who surround it. We meet "God" (Goddard) who is the reluctant to change Headmaster. He has many women flow through his life: students, friends, lovers, secretaries, etc. These women make up the "Daughters" of the "Revolution," which is a sexual one, and over the decades, we see how each develops, grows, and changes. We also see how God reacts to these changes and how his own sexuality ruins him in the end.
This book was NOTHING AT ALL like the jacket description. The author writes short stories and this novel read like a bunch thrown together. Mei Mei is just plain odd, but EV, her daughter, is even worse - a completely maladjusted and twisted woman due to hr upbringing and exposure to "God" and his repressed ways as a child. God is the worst of all, forced to accept coeducation at the school, then circumcision very late in life, and eventual descent into total delusion with no one left to tend to his memoirs - lost in memories of his affair with Mrs. Rebozo.
This book was NOTHING AT ALL like the jacket description. The author writes short stories and this novel read like a bunch thrown together. Mei Mei is just plain odd, but EV, her daughter, is even worse - a completely maladjusted and twisted woman due to hr upbringing and exposure to "God" and his repressed ways as a child. God is the worst of all, forced to accept coeducation at the school, then circumcision very late in life, and eventual descent into total delusion with no one left to tend to his memoirs - lost in memories of his affair with Mrs. Rebozo.