Sandwich by Catherine NewmanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A very honest look at life through the lens of a peri-menopausal mid-50s wife/mother/daughter. She is spending the week in a cottage rental on Cape Cod with her husband, her two adult children (plus one significant other) and her parents. Welcome to the sandwich generation. We discover family secrets, backstories, opinions, loves, hates, and more.
Her internal monologues often actually get spoken out loud. She is very opinionated, and the book deals very frankly with sexuality and menopause. I laughed...I cried...often on the same page of the book. It was a very poignant read and brought back a lot of memories from my life. It's also a very quick read (226 pages) and I polished it off in two days. It could have easily been read in just one day, but life intruded on reading.
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