Wicked - Gregory Maguire
::Spoiler Warning::
You've just got to feel bad for the Wicked Witch of the West (who, as it turns out, wasn't so wicked as misunderstood). From birth, she has been an outcast for her skin color, teeth, and allergy to water, and is always second fiddle to her parents' missionary career, her younger sister, her classmates and friends. She suffers a string of failures from her life's work for the fair treatment of Animals (animals with souls), her affair ending in her lover's murder, parenting, obtaining forgiveness from her lover's widow, and achieving her father and sister's respect. (and shoes!) Maguire ties larger issues into the story, from racism to education reform to nazi-ism to animal rights, giving a polotically-minded reader much food for thought.
In Progress:
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office -Lois P. Frankel
Four Past Midnight -Stephen King
Naked -David Sedaris
You've just got to feel bad for the Wicked Witch of the West (who, as it turns out, wasn't so wicked as misunderstood). From birth, she has been an outcast for her skin color, teeth, and allergy to water, and is always second fiddle to her parents' missionary career, her younger sister, her classmates and friends. She suffers a string of failures from her life's work for the fair treatment of Animals (animals with souls), her affair ending in her lover's murder, parenting, obtaining forgiveness from her lover's widow, and achieving her father and sister's respect. (and shoes!) Maguire ties larger issues into the story, from racism to education reform to nazi-ism to animal rights, giving a polotically-minded reader much food for thought.
In Progress:
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office -Lois P. Frankel
Four Past Midnight -Stephen King
Naked -David Sedaris
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