Sixty-year-old
Hildy Good is the most successful real estate agent in Wendover, Massachusetts.
She is a mother, a grandmother and has a reputation for being a witch. She claims
it’s only her acute observational skills, but she is in fact a descendent of
Goody Good, a woman accused and hung at Salem.
Hildy
is the narrator of The Good House by
Ann Leary and makes a laconic, dry, funny observer of the characters in her
town. She is also a raging, secret alcoholic in complete denial. At the
insistence of her daughters, she once entered rehab, but has since fallen off the
wagon and it’s beginning to show.
Affairs,
parents coping with difficult children, eccentric townspeople and a nostalgic
look back at a summer romance entertain and intrigue but we know a serious fall
is coming. This is an excellent view of the mind of an alcoholic.
Entertaining, sad, informative.
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