To smithhereens | Kirkus Reviews
by Alison
Date of Issuance: July 30, 2024
Uneven but appropriate fun.
Given by her husband, a highly depressed young woman gets into the highest festivities of a lavish wedding.
Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at St. Louis College, conceives his own death. Her husband Matt left her for another woman, and Phoebe takes him hard. In fact, it is determined exactly where and how it will put an end to everything: at a hotel on the ocean in Newport, where it will lie on a bed with a canopy with the size of a king and take a bottle of painkillers on her cat. At the hotel, Phoebe meets with Lila’s bride, a rich girl who chaired her own extravagant six -day wedding holiday. Lila thought she had booked every room at the hotel and learned about Phoebe’s suicide intentions, she forbade this homeless guest from breaking the newlyweds: “No. wedding a week. “After the Punchy Opening, A Grim Flashback to The Meltdown of Phoebe’s Marriage Temporarily Darkens The Mood, We have Things Pick Up WHen Spoiled Lila Interrup Phoebe’s Preperactions and The Slide from Earnest Drama to Broad Farce Is Somewhat Jarring, But From This Point On, Espach Crafts Ann Enjoyable-IFFFD-CLOSE MANNERS. judgment to take her place.
Uneven but appropriate fun.
Date of the pub: July 30, 2024
ISBN: 9781250899576
Number of Pages: 384
Publisher: Henry Holt
Review published online: September 13, 2024