6/26/2023 0 Comments One True Thing by Anna Quindlen![]() ![]() Her mother, Kate, whom Ellen has always regarded with affectionate condescension. She’s used to being in control, used to pleasant surprises, used to success.Īnd then her mother gets cancer. ![]() ![]() Her life to date has been one academic triumph after another, your basic 99 percentile on the SATs type-A personality. The brightest and eldest of three children, she has always seen herself and been seen by others as her English professor father’s clone-literate, ironic, ambitious-rather than her homemaker mother’s daughter. We meet Ellen Gulden, the young woman at the heart of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen’s provocative second novel (the best-selling “Object Lessons” was her first), soon after she’s graduated from Harvard and taken a magazine job in New York. What a treat to read a good story told by a smart, if not always likable, narrator. ![]()
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