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A tour de force of literary art and psychological resonance, Like Normal People graphs a family constellation that revolves around an off-kilter centre: Lena, who's 48 but emotionally locked in years as a child. Moving deftly between present and previous, the novel follows Lena's day-long get away from her personal house with her troubled 12-year-old niece. While this strange couple will take refuge over a honky-tonk southern California beach, Lena's widowed mother, Ella, goes in search of them. Along the way, Ella relives her own life's dreams and disappointments: her relationship to a sugary, loving boot salesman; her discovery of Lena's handicap and her aching makes an attempt to provide her girl a "normal" years as a child. For such a long time, Lena has been the target of Ella's world. When Lena finally finds approximate normalcy - by marrying a man much like herself - Ella must cope with letting her girl go. Covering three whole lifetimes throughout 1 day, Like Normal People is tender, often hilarious, and deeply moving. Bender brilliantly gets into into the consciousness of three women at very different phases of life, each on a private seek out love and acceptance. Like Normal People is a book about desire, about what constitutes normality, and, most poignantly, about the ways that a family sees its strength in the face of adversity.
