A review by snowbenton
The Beginners by Rebecca Wolff

2.0

The Beginners feels like getting drunk and swimming in the ocean at night: you think shore is that way, but it could also be this way, and the waves themselves might be whispering or it might be your friends, but you're too bubbly-headed to care. It was an interesting journey and Wolff's first-person narrative, while not one iota realistic or true to Ginger's age, is compelling at the least. I hated the main character for being shallow and weak and desperate but I loved hating her so much that I enjoyed watching her slowly be ruined by the Motherwells. I guess I recommend this to cruel people who don't mind ambiguous beginnings, middles, and ends.