Reading Skywards – Your Friendly Bookshelf

INFORMATION ABOUT THIS BOOK
Publisher ‏ : Ecco
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 21, 2023
Format:  Hardcover, Paperback, audiobook, and ebook
Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
Genre:  Literary Fiction

MY PERSONAL OPINION OF “GOOD COMPANY” by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

I got the book from the Library Audiobooks selection. I am not sure the reason I picked it. I think I was in a hurry, and this book was available and was within the time I like for an audiobook (up to 10 hrs). I know I was looking for a book with a title starting with G, and this was the one. I have English as a second language, so it is a bit difficult to select audiobooks, but this one was the perfect choice.

I truly enjoyed this book; it was emotive, funny, insightful, raw, true, sad, and real. The main characters were great, with good and bad, and overall a lot of humanity. Flora is strong and weak at the same time. She unravels with the book and takes you on her journey. The way she has lived her life, fulfilling all these compartments: wife, mother, voice actor, and friend. You feel her accomplishments, and her loneliness, and of course, you feel the sting of betrayal.

Margot was such an interesting character, perfection on the outside and trying to live that perfection on the inside, and once you get to know more about her and David’s story, you understand her fear, her actions, and her hopes.

I totally recommend this book! The audiobook (narrated by Marin Ireland) was by far one of the best audiobooks I have ever read.

PREMISE OF THE BOOK AS FOUND IN AMAZON / GOODREADS:

Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring—the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five.

Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian’s small theater company—Good Company—afloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now? 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bibliography:

• Lake Effect: A novel
• The Nest