The Boy
A Novel

Note: I'm not sure if I truly grasped the themes Lara Santoro was trying to convey in The Boy, but I will do my best to share what I took away from my reading experience. At it's core, I felt this story was dark but realistic nonetheless. The Boy offers a look at motherhood in all it's boredom, warr......more

New favorite thing: Wake up on a day with a windchill in the negatives, don fleece leisure wear, peek out the window while bagel toasts and say to self “Today I will read a book in its entirety.” Tramp knee-high boot slippers back upstairs to the bedroom, turn it to a radio station where the only ly......more

I want to blame it on my sleepy brain because I got lost somewhere in the book. And not the good way lost, the bad one where you have no idea what the author wants to say or if she has something to say or what is happening to the characters. The Boy doesn't have a big role to the story. The babysitt......more

Anna is a real woman, not an imaginary "good" mother. She has a child, she is alone after a bitter relationship with her daughter's father, and now she longs for a life of her own. She commits the apparently unforgivable sin of falling in love, maybe even just lust, with a man. What? A woman, a moth......more

The pendulum has swung the other way. At the height of the feminist movement, women who only wanted to stay at home and raise their children were ridiculed; they were abettors of the patriarchal system, living only half lives. We who were girls during the late 60s and 70s were told we could do anyth......more