Sunday, August 25, 2019

Reasons to be cheerful

Reasons to be cheerful / Nina Stibbe, 279 pgs.

Lizzy is 18 now and finds a job as a dental assistant to JP, a subtly racist dentist who promoted the last assistant to future wife.  Sharp and observant, Lizzy figures out how to do many procedures herself.  She begins a relationship with Andy, the guy who makes and delivers dental appliances to the practice.  In the way that this summary tells nothing important about the book, the inner thoughts of Lizzy and her foray into adulthood in the 1980's make this perfectly relateable.  The real reason to be cheerful here is another great book by Stibbe whom I wish could churn them out a little faster.

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