It’s always easy to judge, to
be the one that cares only for yourself. We take our parents for granted and
most of the times we do forget that before having us, they were just like us.
They were young and full of dreams; they had plans and wishes and probably had
to make a lot of sacrifices and compromises to raise their children.
The book it’s a love story of a
man and a woman that they meet each other during a hot summer somewhere in
Iowa. He is a photographer working for National Geographic and she is a typical
housewife. They instantly fall in love and they have only five days till
reality kicks in and hard decisions have to be made.
So when I read this book, I tried
to put myself into main characters’ position. I tried to imagine myself in my
mid-forties trapped into a marriage that doesn’t make me happy anymore.
This woman represents almost
every woman in the last few generations. The housewife who is meant to put
herself aside and makes her husband’s and her children’s lives her only
priority.
You can’t read this book
without feeling the desperation of this woman, without feeling sad for a strong
love lost because of her ethical duty to her family. And you can’t definitely
read this book without appreciating your parents not for the things they offered you
but for the ones that they probably scarified in order to raise you.
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