Then there’s Amanda who worries why she isn’t even included in the coffee circuit in the first place. “She had never expected to find herself here, where women drank coffee all day and pushed prams around the grey, orderly streets, and men went to work, went there and never came back, like there was a war on,” Cusk writes of Juliet. There’s Juliet who suspects she has compromised her career to maintain her husband’s. Author Rachel Cusk navigates the everyday trials of motherhood by following her five characters - Juliet, Maisie, Christine, Solly and Amanda, through the course of one rainy day in a leafy suburb outside of London.Įven though the novel is set in England, the lives these women lead are all too familiar. Could this book be classified as “Mommy Lit?” and shoved aside? For that would be a pity because Arlington Park is chock full of a quality vital for good fiction - empathy. Even as one reads the precisely observed nuggets of suburban life that make up Arlington Park, one starts to worry.
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