Anthropology of an American Girl - Hilary Thayer Hamann

Composed on the 15th of August in the year 2016, at 20:04PM. It was Monday.

This is a first person narriative around the life of Eveline Auerbach. She

starts the book as a teenager and through the story progresses into womanhood. The story begins in New York in the 1970's and carries on into the 1980's.

Eveline is like a lot of teenage girls in that she comes from a middle class family that has broken up, changed it's shape and continues to evolve. She's not like most teenage girls in that it's evident from her self dialogue that she's quite self aware and very well educated (think University English major). That is to say Eveline is more of a romanticized notion of coming of age than the actual thing.

This is not a criticism, it's an observation. The book is a lot of fun to read. The characters are both interesting and compelling. The world created by Hamann is fairly believable and completely immersive.

Yes there is a lot of obligatory moody teenage brooding but hey, that's comes with the territory we're exploring here.

Good Times!

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