Falling Angels
Tracy Chevalier
"I think originally it was given to me, but I'm a big fan of Tracy Chevalier.
It starts in the very early 1900's, I think it's 1901, and it spans a ten-year period of time; and it's about the childhood of two girls who eventually become neighbors and friends. I think it's really about the rite of passage of these two girls for this ten-year period of time. It also has to do with women's lib a little bit - or a lot.
One of the mothers becomes a suffragette and gets thrown into jail, and during that time, if you know the early 1900's, I mean there was very rigid social structures that happened at that time; and you really - you really didn't step outside of those social structures when you were in a certain class. It's about a woman who pushes the parameters of the social structure at that time, and then one of the other mothers stays within those parameters. Both of the families, both of the respective families of the girls suffer a lot, so it has to do with mourning and how mourning was perceived at that time.
I always liked strong women, and I appreciated the fact that this woman was in a very rigid - she was in very rigid confines. Society had decided that it was going to be this way, and she really had the chutzpa and the strength of spirit to go outside of that and to experiment.
Either you have to be interested in the spirit of female growth or in that time, so I think people that would be interested in that would love this book. I would give it a four out of five stars."
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