Our Kind A Novel
Our Kind by Kate Walbert is a novel published by Scribner in 2004, featuring 195 pages in English. This work explores the lives and attitudes of a group of women who transition from traditional country-club housewives to independent individuals navigating their newfound freedom. Through the perspectives of ten companions, Walbert captures the complexities of their experiences, reflecting on themes of anger, disappointment, and pride as they confront their past and present.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into the dreams and realities of women who came of age in the 1950s. As they navigate their independence, the characters engage in various activities, from staging interventions to protesting local issues, illustrating their evolving identities. The novel combines wit and emotional depth, offering insights into a generation of women grappling with cultural changes and personal reinvention.
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From the award-winning author of “The Gardens of Kyoto” comes this witty and incisive novel about the lives and attitudes of a group of women — once country-club housewives; today divorced, independent, and breaking the rules.
In “Our Kind,” Kate Walbert masterfully conveys the dreams and reality of a group of women who came into the quick rush of adulthood, marriage, and child-bearing during the 1950s. Narrating from the heart of ten companions, Walbert subtly depicts all the anger, disappointment, vulnerability, and pride of her characters: “Years ago we were led down the primrose lane, then abandoned somewhere near the carp pond.”
Now alone, with their own daughters grown, they are finally free — and ready to take charge: from staging an intervention for the town deity to protesting the slaughter of the country club’s fairway geese, to dialing former lovers in the dead of night.
Walbert’s writing is quick-witted and wry, just like her characters, but also, in its cumulative effect, moving and sad. “Our Kind” is a brilliant, thought-provoking novel that opens a window into the world of a generation and class of women caught in a cultural limbo.
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