Sunday, January 20, 2008

"Life on the Refrigerator Door" by Alice Kruipers

This is ultimately a story about the relationship of a very busy single mother and her daughter, Claire. Through notes left for one another on the refrigerator door, we see them love, fight and get caught up on each others lives. When a crisis strikes we see how much they care for one another and also how selfish they can be.
Even though Life on the refrigerator Door is a novel written in a non traditional format, it works. Through these small glimpses of their lives written on notes, we get a sense of each character and their relationship with one another. Their frustrations and also their concerns are very clear. And in a day and age where people do most of their communicating through emails, everybody should be able to relate to these two characters

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