Book: How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?
Author: Anna Montague
Pages: 256
This is my 37th read for the year
This is what Amazon Says:
Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates. She's mourning the recent loss of her best friend, Sara, but has brokered a tentative truce with Sara's prickly widower as she helps him sort through the last of Sra's possessions. She's fine. But in going through Sara's old journal, Magda discovers her friend's last directive: plan for a roat trip they would take together in celebration of Magda's upcoming seventieth birthday. So, with Sara's urn in tow, Magda decides to hit the road, crossing the country and encourntering a cast of memorable characters - including her sister, from whom she's been keeping secrets. Along the way she stubmles upon a jazz funeral in New Orleans and a hilarious women's retreat meant to "unleash one's divine feminine energy in Texas, and meets a woman who challenges her conceptions of herself - and the hidden truths about her friendship with Sara. As the trip shakes up her careful routines, Magda finally faces longings she locked away years ago and confronts questions about her sexualty and identity she thought she had long put to rest. And as she soon learns, it's never too late to start your next journey.
This was a decent book. I was hoping it was going to be more like "The True Story of Tanner and Louise", but it wasn't. It is a thoughtful story about grief, but was hoping for a little more humor. It just fell a little flat for me. Couldn't really get invested with most of the characters.
Stars: 3
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