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They were unlikely comrades-in-arms. One was a self-taught, middle-aged Virginia planter in charge of a ragtag army of revolutionaries, the other a rich, glory-seeking teenage French aristocrat. But the childless Washington and the orphaned Lafayette forged a bond between them as strong as any between father and son. It was an unbreakable trust that saw them through betrayals, shifting political alliances, and the trials of war.

Lafayette came to America a rebellious youth whose defiance of his king made him a celebrity in France. His money and connections attracted the favor of the Continental Congress, which advised Washington to keep the exuberant Marquis from getting himself killed. But when the boy-general was wounded in his first battle, he became a hero of two countries. As the war ground on, Washington found in his young charge the makings of a courageous and talented commander whose loyalty, generosity, and eagerness to please his Commander in Chief made him one of the war’s most effective and inspired generals. Lafayette’s hounding of Cornwallis’s army was the perfect demonstration of Washington’s unconventional “bush-fighting” tactics, and led to the British surrender at Yorktown.

Their friendship continued throughout their lives. Lafayette inspired widespread French support for a struggling young America and personally influenced Washington’s antislavery views. Washington’s enduring example as general and statesman guided Lafayette during France’s own revolution years later.

Using personal letters and other key historical documents, Adopted Son offers a rare glimpse of the American Revolution through the friendship between Washington and Lafayette. It offers dramatic accounts of battles and intimate portraits of such major figures as Alexander Hamilton, Benedict Arnold, and Benjamin Franklin. The result is a remarkable, little-known epic of friendship, revolution, and the birth of a nation.

• Sales Rank: #730103 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-30
• Released on: 2007-01-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.40" h x 1.40" w x 6.60" l,
• Binding: Hardcover
• 592 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Personal friends and political allies, George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette had one of the most important friendships of the 18th century. In this enjoyable study, Clary (The Place Where Hell Bubbled Up: A History of the First National Park) argues that although each man was a hero of the American Revolution, it was their partnership that secured American victory. Both men were orphans, and their devotion to each other was motivated by a deep psychological bond. As the title suggests, Washington was something of a father figure to the younger Frenchman, and Lafayette gave the general "unwavering loyalty, truly filial devotion." But the mentoring was not wholly one-sided: Lafayette was committed to the abolition of slavery, and Clary suggests that it was because of Lafayette's influence that Washington chose to free his slaves on his wife's death. The chapters on Lafayette's role in the French Revolution and Washington's anguish over Lafayette's imprisonment make this book far broader than the usual 1776 account. Occasionally, Clary gives over to cutesy Frenchisms (about Lafayette being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine, he writes, "If this was martial glory, très bien"). Still, on the whole, Clary has satisfyingly woven together grand military history with an intimate portrait of deep affection. Illus. (Feb. 6)
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In 1777 a wealthy 19-year-old nobleman from France presented his untested military services to the Continental army. Prudent as always, Washington tried the kid out as an aide before consenting to a command for Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de la Fayette. After proving his courage with a severe wounding at that year's Battle of Brandywine Creek, Lafayette was on his way to the military glory he sought, and the Americans had in him an advocate for French intervention against the British, which they sought. As Clary shows from the extensive correspondence that Washington and Lafayette conducted, their relationship deepened into an unabashedly paternal-filial one. His work's tone captures the sincere mutual solicitude that arose between the two, characterized by gratitude from Washington for Lafayette's personal loyalty, and by near idolization of Washington by Lafayette. Clary acquits himself well in narrating the military action of the major battles in which Lafayette commanded: Monmouth in 1778 and Yorktown in 1781. Portraying youth learning from experience, Clary's history will deservedly tap the readership for the War of Independence. Gilbert Taylor
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“Few stories in American history are more intriguing, or touching, than that of the bond that developed between General Washington and the Marquis d’Lafayette. With verve and charm, David Clary shows how the childless Washington, who felt betrayed by many of the men who surrounded him, and Lafayette, who never knew his father and lusted for glory and the chance to help the American cause, drew close in a loving and trusting relationship. With his engaging style, Clary succeeds in bringing to life Lafayette and Washington, and also in acquainting readers with America’s great and, at times seemingly forlorn, struggle for independence.”
—John Ferling, author of A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic

“As Clary shows from the extensive correspondence that Washington and Lafayette conducted, their relationship deepened into an unabashedly paternal-filial one.... Portraying youth learning from experience, Clary’s history will deservedly tap the readership of the War of Independence.” ––Booklist

"A beautifully crafted, insightful study of the deeply intertwined lives of Washington and Lafayette, two key figures in the transforming age of revolution." —Susan Dunn, author of Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light 

“A finely researched work on the sometimes awkward, often endearing, and ultimately historic relation between two great leaders.” —James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom, and George Washington

"David Clary's Adopted Son is a fascinating account of the relationship between Washington who lacked a son and young Lafayette, who lacked a father. It was a warm, affectionate connection that was greatly satisfying to both men, one that significantly strengthened France's commitment to America during our War of Independence. This fine study deserves a wide readership." —Don Higginbotham

“A riveting history of a tumultuous time in America and France...I loved this book.”—Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, author of American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country

"This is a remarkable book about two of the most remarkable men of the revolutionary era—indeed, of any era.  At long last we have the full story of how the Father of Our Country and his French `adopted son,' the Marquis de Lafayette, joined hands across the Atlantic and on the battlefield, and together launched a new nation and a new age of democracy around the world."—Arthur Herman, author of How the Scots Invented the Modern World

“Personal friends and political allies, George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette had one of the most important friendships of the 18th century. In this enjoyable study, Clary.... [has] woven together grand military history with an intimate portrait of deep affection."—Publishers Weekly

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A Very Long-Winded Take on an Interesting Relationship
By kahemingway
After reading another book about Lafayette, and having previously been interested in his relationship with George Washington, I decided this looked like something that I would enjoy reading. While I learned a lot from the book and there were many memorable moments, the book also has certain drawbacks.

The book actually starts off by depicting the scene between Washington and Lafayette after the battle of Monmouth, in which the pair sat on top of Washington's cloak and fell asleep side by side. From there, it details first Washington's then Lafayette's early lives before they met in 1777 and documents the many parts both men played in the American Revolution. After the war is over, the book mainly focuses on Lafayette's various political and diplomatic escapades in France. It includes some information about Lafayette's return to America in 1824 for the fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution before finally wrapping up with his death in 1834.

I'll start with the good parts about this book. There is a plethora of information about both George Washington and Lafayette in terms of their roles in the American Revolution and what happened to them after it was all over. The portrayal of the genuinely affectionate relationship between these two orphans from different backgrounds is touching and it makes these two great men seem more human. The book also comes with a number of illustrations and pictures of the people the book is discussing. It was a nice addition that gave a few visuals to a book full of names, dates and places. I certainly learned a lot not just about Washington and Lafayette, but many other players in the American Revolution as well.

On the downside, however, this book is mired down with far too many details. I would have liked this book more if it had focused more on just the relationship between Lafayette and Washington, as it had a tendency to deviate from the pair in question as more and more people were introduced. In addition, it takes a few chapters before you get to the point where Lafayette and Washington actually meet and interact with each other, which was the reason I wanted to read this book in the first place. In short, I think some of the content could have been trimmed down and the book would have been better for it.

That being said, this is a very informative book. I did learn a lot of things I didn't know about the two of them by reading it and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in Washington and Lafayette's relationship. If you don't mind reading some wordy and dense material, it is likely you will enjoy this book as well.

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
Absolutely Must Reading for All American History Buffs...
By Dr. Jonathan Dolhenty
This new century of ours has been blessed in these early years with a sudden deluge of excellent books dealing with America's founding years and with the characters involved in creating what can only be described as the "world's greatest and -- so far -- most successful experiment in Constitutional Democratic Republicanism." A few come readily to mind: Stacy Schieff's impressive "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America"; Darren Staloff's very illuminating "Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and The American Founding"; Walter Isaacson's intimate portrayal of probably the most fascinating founding father, "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life"; and, of course, David McCullough's recent study of George Washington and the early revolutionary-war days in his stirring "1776."

Now we can add to this list of excellent works another one: David A. Clary's new book, "Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution." Clary documents (and, does he ever document!) the surprisingly intimate relationship between the "father" of our country, the commanding general of the Revolutionary War, with a heritage firmly in the English tradition, and the very young Marquis de Lafayette, a nineteen-year-old wealthy French aristocrat who comes to America, becomes a major general in the Continental Army, and a national hero in both America and in France.

Washington had no sons and Lafayette was an orphan; the confluence of these two situations led to a bond between the two men unheard of in the annals of the American Revolution. Furthermore, this bond of friendship, although frequently interrupted by periods when they were apart in both space and time, continued throughout their lives. The story is essentially a biography of two heroes set within the context of a country's struggle for political independence against the background of a long, exhausting, and almost lost war which was both unconventional and unique. Thanks to the author's narrative style, the story is never dull and is, in my opinion, as close to a "thriller" as any work of nonfiction can become.

One of the engaging features of Clary's book is the publication of many of the personal letters exchanged between Washington and Lafayette, as well as correspondence and conversations between some of the other characters who played an important part in this American drama, such as John Laurens and Alexander Hamilton. Some of the language of these letters will likely raise the eyebrows of the contemporary reader. For instance: Laurens, Hamilton, and Lafayette, says the author, "wrote gushy letters to each other. Hamilton routinely addressed Laurens as 'my dear' and vowed his 'love'." Then Clary goes on to explain: "Such language was usual in their time, the age of 'Sentiment.' Letter writing was almost a sport and flowery talk was the norm, especially for young fellows burning with passions for war and politics." Much of the correspondence between Washington and Lafayette also expresses this type of language.

Moreover, Clary evidently feels compelled to explain this phenomenon further. In footnote 46, he states this regarding the "flowery" language of the various correspondents: "Taking such language out of context, modern minds think it homosexual, a term coined in the 1890s. It was not a burning issue in the eighteenth century, as it is today, and it is a fallacy to apply the attitudes of the present to the context of the past." Clary is quite correct about this. I don't know whether the concern here, however, is the fact that our spoken and written language has become increasingly banal and less colorful, or whether it is an emotional problem associated with our current concepts regarding "manliness" and "proper" male behavior. Feminists, though, might take note that it apparently wasn't impossible for "manly" heroes in the 18th century to express their innermost feelings toward their male comrades and do so in "flowery" language. Maybe there's a message here or, in the long run, maybe it doesn't matter at all.

There is no question that General George Washington was exactly the right man in the right place for a task that many thought impossible. I suggest that the teenage Marquis de Lafayette was exactly the right youth in the right place for the right leader fighting for America's independence from England. According to ordinary standards, I suspect, they may be judged unlikely friends and comrades; which may tell us something about how our ordinary standards so often fail us. But now the tale of these two historical personalities and the intimate relationship between them has finally been told. The psychological interplay between the two men, the trust they had in each other, the experiences they shared together, this is the stuff that makes great biography. And Clary pulls it off handily. Not a dull moment in the telling.

This is not a book to merely read and enjoy. It is also a valuable research tool for the student of American history. Clary is to be commended for providing a wide variety of resources outside of the main text, which itself includes a Prologue, fifteen chapters, an "Envoi" and an Afterward. There are fifty-seven illustrations, seven maps, a "Cast of Characters" (running six pages, each entry having a short description regarding his or her significance within the story), sixty-five pages of extremely helpful notes, a "Chronology of Washington and Lafayette" (eleven pages) which runs from 1732 to 1834, a bibliography (nineteen pages) which includes archival and museum collections, published original sources, books and reports, periodicals, and dissertations and, finally, a comprehensive index of both major topics, sub-topics and details. What more could the student researcher ask for?

I now submit that David Clary's "Adopted Son" is "must-reading" for those interested in American history, which should, of course, include all American citizens; but I am, alas, a realist and acknowledge the minority status of this position. That being said, I highly recommend this book to all readers, even those who don't think they're interested in reading American history. This is the book that may change any reader's mind.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Beautifully written, thoroughly researched
By M. L Lamendola
This beautifully written book vies with the best novels of our time for the ability to engross a reader. It's one of the best examples of writing I've ever seen. Most authors are either good with style or good with the mechanics, but Clary is clearly a master of both.

The unusually high quality of the writing led me to think perhaps he was weak on fact. That's not the case, though, as you can see after reading through the nearly 20 pages of biography and nearly 100 pages of backnotes. The detailed chronology also shows the writer's devotion to getting his facts right.

And the facts he dug up are amazing. Far from a dry recitation of events, Clary's narrative delves deeply inside the minds of Lafayette and Washington. We see not just what made them great historical figures, but what made them human. Gone are the stereotypes and cardboard characters often presented in historical accounts. This book doesn't follow the "good guys vs. bad guys" formula. It shows the complex interaction of these men with each other and with others. It also shows their failings, insecurities, and weaknesses.

In an age where authors typically have a personal agenda and cherry pick facts to fit it, Clary's work stands out. His only agenda is to help us understand two great historical figures through an undistorted lens.

Clary's nimble use of excerpts from personal letters gives the kind of insight that historical texts should provide, but seldom do. He also provides explanation where needed. For example, letters of that time used saccharin language that we don't use today. It would be easy to misconstrue what's actually being conveyed, but Clary provides enough background so the reader doesn't get confused.

The riveting account of Lafayette's wife Adrienne's efforts in France during and after the French Revolution was nail-biting material in itself, but Clary wove that into the larger narrative. She profoundly changed Lafayette, and we see this not through a disinterested historical narrator but through Lafayette's own eyes.

Personally, I've always enjoyed the subject of history. Consequently, I consider myself knowledgeable in the subject. When I saw the cover of this book, I thought, "Well, yeah, I've heard of Lafayette. There are many American cities named after him and he did something in the American Revolution. But he was a friend of Washington's? Nah, that must be hyperbole." The idea of reading this book intrigued me, because I thought the author must be making some obscure connection and I wanted to see what his leap of logic was. As it turns out, my historical education was lacking. Especially about Washington and Lafayette.

I'm going to offer the excuse that the available information sources tend to frustrate the casual student of history. Figuring out what went on in a given period or with a given historical figure has often been a choice between suffering through boring academic tomes (with their passive voice and other distractions) and a decently-written book with errors of fact. Occasionally, I've come across a book that's readable and accurate, making it a good historical book . But this book is way beyond merely "good."

If we start seeing Adopted Son in our public schools, kids will want to know more about history instead of considering study of the subject on par with getting teeth pulled. But instead of memorizing dates of battles and events in the American Revolution, they'll understand two key people behind those battles and events. And maybe they'll want to study other historical periods. If this way of studying history catches on, we may yet have hope that we will learn from history instead of being doomed to repeat it.

In the same way James Michener taught us about Hawaii and Texas with his page turners, so Clary has given us a "can't put it down" way to learn about Washington, Lafayette, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution.

Clary has just raised the bar for today's nonfiction authors. If authors of history books rise to the challenge, they will unleash a new genre that will capture popular attention for generations to come.

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Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most deeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, most terrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all….

A good mother, writes Jeanne Marie Laskas in her latest report from Sweetwater Farm, would have bought a house in the suburbs with a cul-de-sac for her kids to ride bikes around instead of a ramshackle house in the middle of nowhere with a rooster. With the wryly observed self-doubt all mothers and mothers-to-be will instantly recognize, Laskas offers a poignant and laugh-out-loud-funny meditation on that greatest–and most impossible–of all life’s journeys: motherhood.

What is it, she muses, that’s so exhausting about being a mom? You’d think raising two little girls would be a breeze compared to dealing with the barely controlled anarchy of “attack” roosters, feuding neighbors, and a scheme to turn sheep into lawn mowers on the fifty-acre farm she runs with her bemused husband Alex. But, as any mother knows, you’d be wrong.

From struggling with the issues of race and identity as she raises two children adopted from China to taking her daughters to the mall for their first manicures, Jeanne Marie captures those magic moments that make motherhood the most important and rewarding job in the world–even if it’s never been done right. For, as she concludes in one of her three a.m. worry sessions, feeling like a bad mother is the only way to know you’re doing your job.

Whether confronting Sasha’s language delay, reflecting on Anna’s devotion to a creepy backwards-running chicken, feeling outclassed by the fabulous homeroom moms, or describing the rich, secret language each family shares, these candid observations from the front lines of parenthood are filled with love and laughter–and radiant with the tough, tender, and timeless wisdom only raising kids can teach us.

• Sales Rank: #1617307 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-25
• Released on: 2006-04-25
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 8.48" h x .99" w x 5.81" l,
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About the Author
Jeannne Marie Laskas is a columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, a GQ correspondent, and the author of Fifty Acres and a Poodle and the award-winning The Exact Same Moon. A professor in the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, she also writes the "My Life as a Mom" column for Ladies Home Journal. She lives with her husband and two children at Sweetwater Farm in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Another beautiful and touching collection of essays - great for anyone contemplating motherhood.
By Gen of North Coast Gardening
This collection of interconnected essays explored Laskas' adventures in raising her two adoptive children, Sasha and Anna. We get to be along for the ride through the family's adoption of Sasha from China, and her subsequent language delays and the triumphs she experiences as she develops.

The stories Laskas tells of the girls adjusting to each other and becoming fast friends, playing on the farm, and the adventures they have in the world are touching and sweet. Laskas also shares a lot of the emotional ups and downs she experiences as a mother, and explores the meaning and importance of family and culture through the vehicle of her own family's experiences.

This book had me alternately laughing and nodding in deep recognition of all the ways we form families. The stories of the girls on the farm had me rolling, and I immediately felt comfortable in Laskas' world.

You'd want to read books one and two before trying this one (Fifty Acres and a Poodle, then The Exact Same Moon), since they are enjoyable as well and provide the background for this story.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Hope for a sequel
By JB
I read the "trilogy" this summer, starting with, what I consider her best, Fifty Acres and a Poodle, followed by The Exact Same Moon. I did enjoy Growing Girls, although the chapters were erratic at times and did not exactly follow a timeline. It was more a collection of essays. I'm hoping she will write another book as I love hearing about her life as a mom and the rigors/joys of living on a farm. I was disappointed not to hear more about Marley the poodle in this book, but I know she has a different focus now that she has kids.

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Erma Bombeck is Back
By John Matlock
Being a male I can't totally emphasize with Ms. Laskas points of view about raising girls. But being the father of a girl I can say how surprised I was to find that raising a girl was basically a full time job for two adults. But what a blast. (Not that I'd want to do it again, I'm waiting for grandchildren to spoil.)

Ms. Laskas, however, has a writing style that I've never had. Furthermore, I think her stories also tend to have a happier ending than mine. For instance, in her story of the balloon that got away, daddy chased after the balloon (According to the daughter, 'that is my best balloon.') and after a delightful chase the balloon obligingly turned around and allowed daddy to catch it. In my case the balloon took off like a homesick angel.

I've missed Erma Bombeck. But it looks like she has come back to live on a farm in Pennsylvania.

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Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers–and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation’s capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warming–which could trigger another phenomenon: abrupt climate change, resulting in temperatures...

When the storm got bad, scientist Frank Vanderwal was at work, formalizing his return to the National Science Foundation for another year. He’d left the building just in time to help sandbag at Arlington Cemetery. Now that the torrent was over, large chunks of San Diego had eroded into the sea, and D.C. was underwater.

Shallow lakes occupied the most famous parts of the city. Reagan Airport was awash and the Potomac had spilled beyond its banks. Rescue boats dotted the saturated cityscape. Everything Frank and his colleagues in the halls of science and politics feared had culminated in this massive disaster. And now the world looked to them to fix it.

Whatever Frank can do, now that he is homeless, he’ll have to do from his car. He’s not averse to sleeping outdoors. Years of research have made him hyperaware of his status as just another primate. That plus his encounter with a Tibetan Buddhist has left him resolved to live a more authentic life.

Hopefully, this will prepare him for whatever is to come....

For even as D.C. bails out from the flood, a more extreme climate change looms. With the melting of the polar ice caps shutting down the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, another Ice Age could be imminent. The last time it happened, eleven thousand years ago, it took just three years to start.

Once again Kim Stanley Robinson uses his remarkable vision, trademark wry wit, and extraordinary insight into the complexity between man and nature to take us to the brink of disaster–and slightly beyond.


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• Published on: 2007-01-30
• Released on: 2007-01-30
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Starred Review. Earth continues its relentless plunge toward environmental collapse in Robinson's well-done if intensely didactic follow-up to Forty Signs of Rain (2004). As a result of global warming, the Gulf Stream has stalled, and when winter comes, impossibly frigid temperatures hit the Eastern Seaboard and Western Europe. As people starve, multinational corporations explore ways of making a profit from the disaster. When Antarctica's ice shelves collapse, low-lying island nations quite literally slip beneath the rising waters. In Washington, D.C., clear-sighted scientists must overcome government inertia and stupidity to put into effect policies that may begin to salvage the situation. An enormous fleet of ships is dispatched to the North Atlantic to dump millions of tons of salt into the ocean in the hope of restarting the Gulf Stream. This ecological disaster tale is guaranteed to anger political and economic conservatives of every stripe, but it provides perhaps the most realistic portrayal ever created of the environmental changes that are already occurring on our planet. It should be required reading for anyone concerned about our world's future.
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Adult/High School–Picking up where Forty Signs of Rain (Bantam, 2004) leaves off, this second book in a planned trilogy finds Earth about to experience the most intense winter on record. Governments worldwide blithely go about their routines in spite of the monumental recent flooding in Washington, DC, and other areas around the globe. When the record-setting cold sets in, people begin freezing to death and starving due to crop failures. Large corporations and world governments use the crisis to attempt to rig elections and plan other agendas to tighten their hold on the public. Meanwhile scientists, especially those at the National Science Foundation, frantically search for a way to shift the weather patterns. The answer seems to be to jump-start the Gulf Stream to get it flowing again; the world watches as millions of tons of salt pour from ships into the ocean in this attempt. While the major plot of ecological chaos plays out, the subplots show how the effects of the weather changes, ecological turmoil, and governmental and big business assaults affect the various characters as they try to survive. This well-researched and expertly written novel about a future that might be coming true all too soon will hopefully serve as a wake-up call about Earths current serious situation.–Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
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Robinson, award-winning author of the Mars trilogy, turns his attention away from space and toward Earth. Critics weren’t too sure what to make of the second of this eco-thriller series. If it was a plea to take action to combat global warming, few were certain that Robinson saw "big science" as the obvious answer and suspected that he had something else up his sleeve for the third book. But readers won’t miss the obvious point about global warming, government, technology, and science—though a moralizing air, out-of-context details, and distracting subplots raised some critics’ eyebrows. The London Times even warned that this novel was "nigh on unintelligible" unless you’d read the first book. Since Robinson’s scenario really could happen, you’d better read up.

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better than the first installment
By Mike Garrison
This is the second book in a trilogy, or perhaps the second part of a three book novel. (More on that later.) It works better for me than the first installment (Forty Signs Of Rain) because it is a lot more focused.

Where the first book followed a bunch of mostly-separated stories about a bunch of mostly-separated characters, this one concentrates on a single character, Frank Vanderwal. Some of the other characters from the first book are also covered in a secondary way, but Frank is the center of the story. (Leo is completely absent. Charlie and Anna are sometimes used as viewpoint characters, but quite sparingly.)

Some of the author's longtime fascination with Tibet shows up in a secondary storyline, but the major plot thread details Frank's attempt to live homeless in the middle of Washington DC as a "modern forest primate". This is complicated by a severe winter that is brought on by global climate change. It is contrasted by an examination of what happens when the zoo animals that were released during the flood of the previous book end up "going feral" and trying to survive in the now-wrecked Washington city parks.

Frank is also the focus of domestic surveillance operations, and Robinson presents an image (which is quite possibly true) of a society where domestic high tech spying is rampant and extends even to people who live "off grid" as much as possible. (The headlines in US papers this week are about the NSA performing illegal domestic spying, so perhaps this was a timely subject for fiction!)

He also discusses the idea of letting science replace politics as a method for keeping society running. Those familiar with Robinson's other works will recognize this idea. He likes to come up with new systems of economics and government, which he then uses as the background for a story about his characters. Many of these focus on "market failures" in the current capitalism/democracy system that is in place in the West. Climate change is a well-known market failure scenario, and fits in well with Robinson's political interests.

In the book, Charlie's boss Phil Chase decides to run for president against the unnamed but very Bush-like Republican incumbent. This is a small story in the book, but it is thematically important to the idea that "business as usual" just isn't working.

Frank also finds himself somewhat torn between a possible romantic involvement with his boss, Diane, and an on-going relationship with the mysterious woman he met while stuck in an elevator at the end of the first book.

The bottom line is that this book reads better than the first one. It has a focus, a more definite storyline, and a better feeling of completeness -- even though it is obviously not a complete novel.

Which brings me back to a complaint about this series and several other recent fiction series that I have read. When did it go out of fashion to publish complete novels? More and more it seems that novels have grown to the point that partial novels are being released as "parts of a series". That has its place in some stories, but in most of them (as in this one) it breaks up the story too much and weakens it overall. I think this "series" would have better if it had been a more tightly composed single book, about two thirds the length of the total trilogy.

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On Bureaucracy
By David G. Phillips
The second book in a trilogy on catastrophic global climate change. '50 Degrees' starts off where '40 Signs ' left off, Washington D.C. and much of the eastern seaboard has emerged from the deluge and clean-up ensues. This book, like its predecessor, is a book about bureaucracy and governmental infighting. Despite the writing on the wall the government and the NSF have a difficult time gaining any sort of traction on changing the status quo and leading the nation into reversing climate change and establishing some sort of carbon sequestration.

The character Frank plays the main protagonist in this book, he emerges from the deluge homeless and decides to go feral much like the Washington DC zoo animals had done during the rain storm. He lives in a tree house and tries to survive in the park even though temperatures are changing drastically after the thermohaline stall of the Gulf Stream. Much as the book suggests, temperatures reach 50 degrees below and many cities are woefully unprepared for it.

Much like the first book, this one spends the first 2/3rds taking us through the bureaucratic infighting between DoD and DoE versus the NSF and EPA amongst others. The last third involves the response to temperature change and the mini ice-age that looks imminent after the West Antarctic ice-shelf begins to separate. Along with this, Robinson tangentially discusses a secret governmental conspiracy to steal elections (a la Diebold) & warantless spying on Americans. This book is sure to make conservatives cringe and could be the anti 'State of Fear' Michael Chricton screed.

It's a fine book & Robinson is a very talented writer, I just wish he would focus less on the Tibetan obsession and stick to the weather. A good book, I plan on reading the final novel, but I think it could have been much better featuring more of the weather / governmental conspiracy angle.

26 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
The Suspense, It Burns!
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I'm giving this only three stars, not for the writing, but for the serial nature of the two books so far in this trilogy.

Like the first book, this one has a lot to offer. Rapid climate change continues apace, and Robinson's scientists and politicians grapple with the effects as they work as involved professionals on the problem. Imagining Minnesotan winter temperatures in Washington DC is a powerful way to bring home how climate change could day-to-day life. The characters are touching and human, and their relationships with each other are as important as their relationship with the weather.

But for Pete's sake... the two books published so far aren't novels, they're the first two-thirds of a novel. They're not long enough nor dense enough to be satisfying as individual stories. The Mars trilogy, another trilogy by Robinson which followed a set of characters for three books, covered centuries of events in over two thousand pages; the first two books of this trilogy, by contrast, have the same page count as the last book of the Mars trilogy and span events over roughly a year, and even at that they seem a little padded with a lot of lunches and phone calls and searches for parking spaces. Worst of all, this book ends with another big 'To Be Continued...' placard.

It's praising with faint condemnation when a reader's principal frustration with book is that there isn't more of it, but still, be aware that whatever appetites were aroused by _Forty Signs of Rain_ won't be satisfied here. I remain optimistic about the end of the story, but I sure wish I didn't have to wait another year to read it.

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If you close your eyes, he’ll get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation’s top sleep therapists, she specializes in the life-threatening night terrors that her ten-year-old son, Michael, suffers from. But she is also an expert in another kind of terror–the kind that can turn a dream life into a living nightmare in the blink of an eye.

Someone is watching. He’s a shadowy figure from out of her darkest fears and he hasn’t forgotten her. In one shocking moment of violence, he’d shattered Sophie’s world forever and left her with only one thing to live for: her son. But the nightmare isn’t over for Sophie Dunston. It’s just begun. He’s been waiting. Sophie was supposed to die the first time around, but fate intervened. This time he’ll make sure that not even a miracle will save her.

It wasn’t a miracle that saved Jock Gavin, but it was pretty close. A semiretired hit man, commando, and jack-of-all-deadly-trades, he knows what Sophie is up against–and that she’ll need help. But the man he’s chosen for the job is as unpredictable as he is dangerous. Matt Royd is a wild card–hard, cool, merciless–and putting him into play changes the game completely. But to whose advantage?

Sophie will soon find out. She will have to trust Royd because she has no choices left. Because the bogeyman haunting her dreams is all too real and he’s on the hunt again. Because the nightmare he’s got planned for Sophie won’t end when she wakes up screaming. It won’t end. Ever.

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Bestseller Johansen (On the Run), in her latest thriller full of heavy-breathing romance, turns to mind-control of the Manchurian candidate variety, a state induced by the chemical REM-4 and mysterious sleep-manipulation methods guaranteed to turn regular folk into killer zombies. It promises to be a lucrative technology, as one of the heroes in the novel predicts: "Mind control is just too tempting not to attract the scumbags of the world." The head scumbag is Robert Sanborne of Sanborne Pharmaceuticals, whose goal is to perfect the REM-4 program so he can sell it to the world's evildoers. The heroine, Sophie Dunston, a leading sleep researcher and the original inventor of REM-4, falls hard for Matt Royd, a former zombie who has come to his senses and is trying to kill Sanborne. Royd and Sophie, forced by circumstances to be allies, begin by hating each other and then—no surprise—fall wildly in lust and love. Johansen offers nothing new, but her many fans will overlook a rather improbable premise and be happy with a familiar cast of characters (many from the author's other novels), familiar situations and familiar outcomes. (June)
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In her latest thriller, the prolific, best--selling Johansen, dubbed the queen of suspense, introduces a new heroine, Sophie Dunston, a top-notch sleep researcher who developed a drug to battle the insomnia from which her father and millions of others suffer. But her nefarious former boss and his cohorts have used the drug she created to alter the minds of ordinary people like her father, who killed his wife and threatened Sophie and her young son. With hardened heart, Sophie has one goal: to kill her former boss, since every attempt she's made to expose him to the authorities has failed. Just as she discovers that there are many victims of her nemesis' mind-controlling experiments, one shows up with the same murderous intention. Sophie is leery of Matt Royd, and his first thoughts are to use Sophie, the author of his nightmares, to destroy the others. Brutal and deadly himself, Royd leaves Sophie no choice but to cooperate. The danger increases tenfold as the hunters become the hunted in this suspenseful tale of nightmarish evil. Patty Engelmann
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"A fast-paced, riveting, suspenseful read, with an underlying sense of romance between the two main characters."—State, Columbia, SC

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Once again, Iris Johansen moves you, holds you at the edge unto completion.

57 of 65 people found the following review helpful.
Fun plots, terrible writing
By Dennyvibes
I have read more Iris Johansen novels than I like to admit (I stopped counting at around 20), but they are getting worse. Her plots are fun, and her creativity in weaving characters and storylines throughout different books is impressive, but her writing itself is just not very good. Much of it could be fixed by a good editor.

All of her characters' dialogue is prissy and old-fashioned--as I imagine Ms. Johansen's own speech is. Every character's speech is littered with "Good heavens"es, "what the devil"s, and, my personal (least) favorite, "dammit," thrown in where there is no need, but where Ms. Johansen thinks the character should sound "tough." In any basic fiction writing class, one learns that every character does not speak the same, and that means not using the same "curse" words and manner of cursing. One other funny Johansenism is "He muttered an oath under his breath." I wonder what the oath was. Did he swear to love, cherish, and honor her 'til death parted them or perhaps first to do no harm? I know what she meant, but it amused me just the same. Couldn't she just say "he swore under his breath"?

Another issue is the basic formula of Johansen's novels: Strong woman is in difficult situation that she cannot handle alone for the first time in her life. Strong woman must learn to trust renegade strong man who is tough and cannot show tenderness. Strong woman and strong man clash in their mutual quest to destroy evil. Strong man and women have deep sexual attraction, dammit. Strong woman and man give in to their carnal urges. Strong woman and man vanquish the evil foe and go back to their separate lives. Strong woman and man realize they love each other and cannot be apart. The end.

The last issue is the men's names. I had to stop reading the last novel because I couldn't take seriously a character called "Silver." Is he a horse? Hi ho! "Royd" is an AWFUL name, by the way. I alternately think of hemorrhoids or steroids. Most people do not call each other by their last names, even men. Some men do, but not all the time, and women most likely wouldn't call all men by their last names. Of course, then even the characters' FIRST names are awful: JOCK?!? What the devil kind of Scottish name is that? Why doesn't she call him "Gavin"? Inconsistent. Oh, if you could hear the oath I am muttering under my breath.

The more I notice the bad writing, the more difficult it is for me to read her books. This is the last of her books I think I will read.

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In the too-quiet town of Oakwood, only the lucky die of boredom…and new homeowner Zack Walker isn’t feeling lucky. Whoever said the burbs were boring will think twice after reading Linwood Barclay’s hilarious debut mystery, in which Dad learns the hard way that he doesn’t always know best.

Zack wouldn’t blame you for thinking he’s safety-obsessed. True, he masterminded a plot to trade his family’s exciting city lifestyle for one of suburban tranquillity. True, even after this strategic move, Zack still has issues with family members who forget their keys in the front door, leave their cars unlocked, or park their backpacks at the top of the stairs—where you could kill yourself tripping over them. Just ask his wife, Sarah, or his teenage kids, Paul and Angie, who endure their share of lectures.

Zack knows that he needs to chill out and assume the best for once—but we know what happens to those who assume.

When Zack realizes their two-faced developer sent a petty thief to fix their leaky shower, he starts fighting hard to ignore the fact that Oakwood isn’t the crime-free paradise he was hoping for. But his brief state of denial comes to an abrupt end when, during a walk by the creek, he stumbles across a dead body. Even more shocking, Zack actually knows who the victim is—and who might want him dead.

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• Sales Rank: #488555 in Books
• Brand: Barclay, Linwood
• Published on: 2005-04-26
• Released on: 2005-04-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 1.10" w x 4.20" l,
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Riotously funny and irreverent, Canadian journalist Barclay's mystery debut is a rollicking good read. When Zack Walker, a sometimes cranky and always paranoid science fiction writer, moves with his family from the city to Valley Forest Estates, he soon finds that life in the suburbs can be dangerous, even deadly. Envious of a childhood friend who once found a drowning victim, Zack gets his wish and stumbles across the body of Samuel Spender, a zealous conservationist who'd been trying to prevent the final phase of Valley Forest's construction around the habitat of a rare salamander. In his campaign, Spender made several enemies, including the subdivision's sales manager, Don Greenway. Zack, who witnessed a heated argument between Spender and Greenway the day the conservationist died, is soon neck-deep in trouble when he finds a second body, a cache of cash and a canister of undeveloped film. Murder, blackmail and extortion are just the tip of the iceberg, as Zack realizes some very nasty people want what he has and will stop at nothing to get it. While Zack is an amazingly flawed hero, he's a breath of fresh air with no illusions about his odd compulsions and his limited abilities. His often exasperated wife Sarah makes the perfect comic foil. Fans of lighter crime capers will rejoice.
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Paranoid science-fiction author Zack Walker, his wife, and two teenagers move from the city to the suburbs, where they hope to be safe from crime. But Zack still sees disaster in the making everywhere: front doors left unlocked, backpacks at the top of the stairs, and a curling iron left plugged in by his daughter. Therefore, Zack decides to teach his family a series of lessons so they will learn to be more careful. Teaching his wife to watch her purse while shopping leads to a series of events that spiral out of control, going from bad to worse, as Zack gets mixed up in fraud, blackmail, and murder. With the bad guys close behind, Zack, along with a couple of eccentric neighbors, must find a murderer before he and his family are hurt or killed. Fast pacing, well-drawn characters, and a look at the life of a science-fiction writer add to the pleasure of this humorous first-person account in which the suburbs turn out to be no guarantee of personal safety. Sue O'Brien
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"Humorous ... Fast-Paced.... the suburbs turn out to be no guarantee of personal safety."
--Booklist

Praise for Last Resort:

"Last Resort is a moving, bittersweet and naturally funny memoir of a young man's coming of age."
--London Free Press

"Engaging...Barclay writes with admirable openness about his dysfunctional family."
--Maclean's

"Barclay's straightforward and unadorned prose...lets him subtly convey the crazy-quilt way that life happens: teenage fun bumps into grownup sadness, loved ones can turn troubled or troubling...Barclay's style may seem simple, but the effects he achieves are anything but."
--January Magazine

"[Barclay] manages to capture something elusive; the magical, almost ineffable wonder of childhood, where the sense of freedom offered by a nine-horsepower boat, a summer romance or the first serious conversation with an adult offers a promise of life which one rarely shakes off in later years."
--National Post?


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and the series does get much better, but I have to say I'm glad I ...
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I think this is Barclay's first novel, and I can honestly say he's come a long way. This book was all over the place, jumping the shark with unbelievability. This book is the start of a series based on the same character, and the series does get much better, but I have to say I'm glad I read the others first or I might not have gotten much further with his work!

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As good as all the rest!
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Loved this book. Kept me interested and couldn't put it down. Another great from Linwood Barclay! Now on to the next one.

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From a master of horror, dark fantasy, and suspense comes a compelling and uniquely original work of paranormal suspense in which one man finds himself trapped in a web of ever-shifting reality which threatens to remake the whole of the world—unless he can find a way to stop it.

For Will James, facing his tenth high school reunion is far from his finest hour—especially since his life has not gone exactly as he planned. Dumped at the altar by his high school sweetheart and with his dreams of being a prize-winning reporter dashed by his job at a Boston tabloid, he is not sure he is ready to face his former peers.

But what he does find at the reunion is far more than he bargained for. He soon learns that one of his buddies had died several years back—even though Will had received an e-mail from him only a few days before. It is not long before other people Will was convinced were alive are turning out to be dead as well—or married to other people, or childless where they used to have children. And new memories are swarming in to replace what Will is convinced was his old life, until he no longer knows what is real and what is not. The only thing he does know for certain is that he has to figure out why he alone remembers snatches of another life before everything dissolves into this new, darker reality.


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• Sales Rank: #2560356 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-26
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.82" h x 1.12" w x 4.14" l, .45 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 416 pages

From Publishers Weekly
In his latest well-crafted horror novel, Stoker-winner Golden (The Ferryman) presents a nostalgic, unsentimental portrait of adolescence. A young reporter, Will James, whose career has stalled due to his obsession with debunking the supernatural, returns home for his 10th high school reunion to discover that his memories of the events of his senior year are not only news to his classmates but are actually changing into recollections of much darker events. Youthful experiments with the black arts have set in motion ripples that are altering his present reality in unsettling ways. Will travels back in time to the period immediately before his prom to set things straight, only to realize that someone is actively working to destroy him and his friends-and that person is using more powerful magic than his own. Golden addresses the issue of how one's identity is intimately bound to the memory of one's experiences: change the memory and the personality is changed. More sensitive younger readers will pick up on the book's moral lessons, while adult fans will overlook the didactic element and appreciate the suspenseful plot and strong atmosphere.
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*Starred Review* Will James reluctantly decides to attend his tenth high-school reunion. He's perplexed when his friend Mike doesn't show, but when he asks his friend Danny about Mike, Danny tells him Mike died during their senior year. Will is horrified to actually feel his memories changing. He can remember an e-mail he exchanged with Mike just a week ago, but he does also recall Mike being killed when a drunk driver hit him 10 years back. What's more, suddenly, before Will's eyes, Ashleigh--his best friend in childhood--changes from a happy young mother of two to a woman still scarred by the rape and subsequent abortion that robbed her of the capability to have children. Kyle, the teenager living in Will's old house, turns out to hold the key to all this weirdness. When he brings Will a book of Dark Magick, memories Will has blocked for 10 years come flooding back, and he realizes the root of his problems may indeed lie in his own actions in the past. Golden takes a truly creepy fantastic premise and delivers in spades; this gripping story is not to be missed. Kristine Huntley
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From a master of horror, dark fantasy, and suspense comes a compelling and uniquely original work of paranormal suspense in which one man finds himself trapped in a web of ever-shifting reality which threatens to remake the whole of the world?unless he can find a way to stop it.For Will James, facing his tenth high school reunion is far from his finest hour?especially since his life has not gone exactly as he planned. Dumped at the altar by his high school sweetheart and with his dreams of being a prize-winning reporter dashed by his job at a Boston tabloid, he is not sure he is ready to face his former peers.But what he does find at the reunion is far more than he bargained for. He soon learns that one of his buddies had died several years back?even though Will had received an e-mail from him only a few days before. It is not long before other people Will was convinced were alive are turning out to be dead as well?or married to other people, or childless where they used to have children. And new memories are swarming in to replace what Will is convinced was his old life, until he no longer knows what is real and what is not. The only thing he does know for certain is that he has to figure out why he alone remembers snatches of another life before everything dissolves into this new, darker reality.

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Good plot but didn't like hero
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I loved all the Christopher Golden Buffy books I have read and I decided to try a non-Buffy book of his. It turns out that the story of "The Boys Are Back in Town" could fit right into the Buffyverse. After a slow start, I grew absorbed in this creepy and interesting story. I also thought the ending was appropriate to the tone of the book. My one complaint is that I had a hard time liking the hero Will. There are lots of descriptions of him in high school drinking and throwing up with his buddies, peeking up skirts and down blouses, and taking part in some not-so-innocent pranks. The f-word also appears on almost every page. Maybe I just find it hard to relate to the average teenage boy, but I lost sympathy for him with every turn of the page.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Good but not Golden's best...
By Sebastien Pharand
Christopher Golden's novels have blown me away. Although he writes in the horror genre, his writing is done with so much emotion and skill that you can easily lose yourself in the narrative. The Ferryman and Straight on Til Morning are two of the best horror novels published in the past decade.
That said, it comes with great disappointemnt to say that The Boys Are Back in Town is a step back for Golden. Although the very things that have made his previous books such successes (great characters, a very imaginative plot, beautiful writing) are present, the book nonetheless feels like something Golden would have written in the early parts of his career.
Will is getting ready to go to his high school reunion. Once there, he rekindles his friendship with all of his high school friends. But just as things start to fall into place, Will's memories of the past start to change. Mike, one of Will's friend, now seems to be dead while Will remembers e-mailing him just a few days before the reunion. More of his memories disappear, replaced by darker, more violent ones.
Why? Well, everything is related to the past. Seems like Will and his best friend Brian were deep into magic as teens. Now someone seems to be putting a spell on Will, one that changes his memories to make his present life a living hell. Will feels he has no choice but to cast a spell on himself to bring him back in time - to his senior year of high school - in order to stop whoever is murdering or torturing his friends.
The plot does sound like some bad 80s b-movie. And at times, the plot points feel just a bit too ludicrous and over-the-top to be truly enjoyable. And that's too bad, because Golden was able to create some very emotional moments in this book. Who wouldn't like to go back in time to change the way things were? Who wouldn't want to go back in time to meet his younger self and try to stop him from making the mistakes you've done? If Golden had played with this aspect more, the book would have been much stronger.
And the narrative isn't helped by the Carrie rip-off ending that never suits the book. That said, there is still a lot to love about this book. The nostalgic plot will often leave you feeling quite sad, while the characters feel so real and are so well written that it feels as though they were your own friends back in high school. Golden was always able to write vivid and realistic characters, and this one is no exception.
If this book did one thing for me, it made me wonder what Golden could do with a straight-on, non-genre narrative. The Boys are Back in Town is a novel full of emotions and plot twists that never ad up to what they should. And although this one is still better than half the horror books out there, I still couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed in the end.

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A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. It’s four o’clock, and she hasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to "get to the bottom of this." She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. This child will not ruin her plans.

Sickened

From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, and operated on—in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother’s mind. Munchausen by proxy (MBP) is the world’s most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse, in which the caretaker—almost always the mother—invents or induces symptoms in her child because she craves the attention of medical professionals. Many MBP children die, but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's madness and rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman.

Sickened is a remarkable memoir that speaks in an original and distinctive Midwestern voice, rising to indelible scenes in prose of scathing beauty and fierce humor. Punctuated with Julie's actual medical records, it re-creates the bizarre cocoon of her family's isolated double-wide trailer, their wild shopping sprees and gun-waving confrontations, the astonishing naïveté of medical professionals and social workers. It also exposes the twisted bonds of terror and love that roped Julie's family together—including the love that made a child willing to sacrifice herself to win her mother's happiness.

The realization that the sickness lay in her mother, not in herself, would not come to Julie until adulthood. But when it did, it would strike like lightning. Through her painful metamorphosis, she discovered the courage to save her own life—and, ultimately, the life of the girl her mother had found to replace her. Sickened takes us to new places in the human heart and spirit. It is an unforgettable story, unforgettably told.

• Sales Rank: #536098 in Books
• Brand: Brand: Bantam
• Published on: 2003-09-30
• Released on: 2003-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.56" h x .96" w x 5.81" l,
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

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The first of its kind, this compelling memoir recounts the story of a childhood affected by Munchausen by proxy disease, a.k.a. MBP, a psychological disorder in which caretakers, usually themselves the victims of traumatic abuse, "make an otherwise healthy child sick" as a way of gaining attention and approval. Set in towns of rural obscurity, Gregory's memoir movingly describes how, as a "sick" child, she believed that her constant feelings of exhaustion and lethargy were caused by some illness in herself rather than by her mother's complicated and abusive rituals. When her mother feeds her handfuls of pills, withholds food or instructs her to "act sick," Gregory does as she is told because she wants to please her. Then, undernourished and doped up on drugs for problems that don't exist, Gregory is dragged from hospital to hospital in search of "answers." Interspersed throughout Gregory's narrative are real medical records that show the efforts of dozens of doctors, procedures and surgeries to "heal" her, efforts which instead become the source of new illnesses. Not until adulthood, when she hears a professor describe MPB during a lecture, does Gregory realize what the real problem is. Gregory's impressive and disturbing memoir uncovers the truths of this elusive and disturbing form of child abuse that is often overlooked and misdiagnosed. 22 pages of b&w white photos.
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Adult/High School-Gregory's childhood was marred by a particularly insidious form of child abuse. Her mother used a combination of malnutrition, overwork, and prescription drugs to keep the girl in a perpetual state of ill health. They spent their spare time visiting pediatricians and heart specialists, with her mother ratcheting up the symptoms and possible cures, even begging a doctor to perform open-heart surgery. Ironically, when Gregory did need medical care after breaking a wrist, she was ignored for hours by her mother, who insisted that the injury might just be a sprain, even though the bone was poking out from the skin. It was not until the young woman moved away from their isolated family home and attended college that she was able to piece together the events of her childhood and move forward with her own life. She relays her story not as a victim but as a strong survivor. Her narrative style maintains the child's inner voice, necessary to help readers remember that she was too young to realize that she wasn't really sick. By the time she began to grow suspicious, she had a lengthy paper trail of symptoms that kept the medical profession convinced that she really was sick, despite her growing protests. The author currently serves as an advocate for other Munchausen survivors. As well as being a fascinating read, this book could give others in similar situations a lifeline back to health.-Jamie Watson, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
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From Booklist
In the early 1950s, Munchausen syndrome emerged as a new mental illness. Named for an eighteenth-century baron who told wildly embellished tales, the illness describes people who invent sickness in order to get attention. Munchausen by proxy (MBP), the disease's newer cousin, describes those who inflict or invent illness in others, often family members. The author, an advocate for MBP victims, grew up in a household with a certifiably schizophrenic father, a grandmother who staged car accidents, and a mother who used her little girl to get attention. Gregory recounts, in sometimes excruciating detail, frequent visits to doctors (her mother would coach her on how to act sick), near-constant emotional abuse, and, most distressing, her mother's strategies to induce illness in her daughter. (Her revelation that she was fed matches as though they were lollipops--"my mouth waters when I see their shimmery crimson tips"--is particularly disturbing.) A deeply unsettling portrait of a bizarre and frequently fatal illness. David Pitt
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By alwaysthecritic
Once I started reading this book I couldn't put it down. The story is very compelling in itself, but Julie Gregory is also an excellent and occasionally hilarious writer. It did remind me of Augusten Burrough's work in the way she described the people around her with a child's blunt, uncompromising perspective. It breaks your heart that a child this perceptive and aware would have to endure what she did. Her mother has to be one of the scariest parents alive, but Julie opens the book with some hair-raising scenes from her mother's own adolescence so you can see that her cruelly bizarre behavior didn't just spring from a vacuum. Overall this is a fascinating and beautifully poetic read about twisted family dynamics and how the author carved out her own path to sanity.

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If you are reading this review, please purchase a copy of this book and read it. This story needs to be heard. And, it's really not just Julie's story anymore. If you are on this page, than you most likely already know about Munchausen by proxy syndrome. And, you may decide you are not too interested in reading this book and opt, instead, to purchase another book that links to this page.

In most cases, that would be alright. We can read what we want to read. In this case, though, everyone needs to be made aware of the author's plight. Her abusive mother STILL, to this day, is the guardian of two children in Montana who are STILL being carted off to doctors and hospitals on a regular basis. Her mother is STILL perpetrating abuse.

This book was written to not only help the author deal with her past but to save the two adolescent children that are suffering at the hands of a very sick and abusive woman. These two kids are "slipping through the cracks" of the very system designed to help them. Unfortunately, the fact that these kids are being denied their basic rights is not being made known. They same abuse that has been inflicted on Julie and her brother is now being inflicted on these two children.

That said, this is a wonderful book. Julie tells her story with emotion and feeling. SHe learns a lot on the way and we learn it with her. Highly recommended.

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This was a very interesting book. I wish the author had included a little more detail of how she pulled herself together, how she discovered fruit and vegtables (vice fixing chocolate cake batter for breakfast) I would also have appreciated knowing how she persuaded the child protective services in Montanna of the truth of her mother's 2nd round of "Munchausen by Proxy" with her 2nd family and foster children.

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