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Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel, novel by Heather McElhatton...
If you were a youngish person in the 1980's, you may remember the
Bantam Books series of Choose Your Own Adventure books. After the
introduction, the reader gets to choose where the story should go.
McElhatton has taken this concept and written a "Do-Over Novel" for
adults. Pretty Little Mistakes starts with a young female "You" deciding
what to do after high school graduations. Your choices at the end of each
section lead you through a veriety of lives and over 150 alternate endings.
Each section is a flash of jewel-like sudden fiction. Sometimes you just die,
sometimes you go to one of a number of heavens, in at least one ending
you go to a particularly unappetizing hell.
aside from McElhatton's voice, which is powerful, funny, compassionate
and authentic, the most exhilarating thing about the book is the questions it
raises for the reader. If anything is possible in the labyrinthine narrative of
the book, is it also for life? What if our careful decisions lead to ruin, or a
series of foolish decisions leads to bliss?
And what if, simultaneously, there's no such thing as fate? Does anyone
actually deserve hapiness or success or the reverse? This book is being
touted as a "fun" read, and itmost definitely is, but the depth of
McElhatton's insights and the quality of her prose raise this book far above
the level of the beach-bag read. You can read it on the beach if you like -
it's a free country - but it will be hard to take in the sights with your nose
buried in this compelling book.
(HarperCollins, 464 pp., $14.95)
Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel, novel by Heather McElhatton...
If you were a youngish person in the 1980's, you may remember the
Bantam Books series of Choose Your Own Adventure books. After the
introduction, the reader gets to choose where the story should go.
McElhatton has taken this concept and written a "Do-Over Novel" for
adults. Pretty Little Mistakes starts with a young female "You" deciding
what to do after high school graduations. Your choices at the end of each
section lead you through a veriety of lives and over 150 alternate endings.
Each section is a flash of jewel-like sudden fiction. Sometimes you just die,
sometimes you go to one of a number of heavens, in at least one ending
you go to a particularly unappetizing hell.
aside from McElhatton's voice, which is powerful, funny, compassionate
and authentic, the most exhilarating thing about the book is the questions it
raises for the reader. If anything is possible in the labyrinthine narrative of
the book, is it also for life? What if our careful decisions lead to ruin, or a
series of foolish decisions leads to bliss?
And what if, simultaneously, there's no such thing as fate? Does anyone
actually deserve hapiness or success or the reverse? This book is being
touted as a "fun" read, and itmost definitely is, but the depth of
McElhatton's insights and the quality of her prose raise this book far above
the level of the beach-bag read. You can read it on the beach if you like -
it's a free country - but it will be hard to take in the sights with your nose
buried in this compelling book.
(HarperCollins, 464 pp., $14.95)