![]() ![]() Thus, Adult Onset is a semi-autobiographical novel - a big clue is in the name of the protagonist, which echoes the author’s name - and is about as kitchen sink realistic as you can get. Her mother is suffering from a kind of mild dementia. The book is about a writer of young adult fiction named Mary Rose MacKinnon who is suffering from writer’s block and takes place over a week in her life looking after her two young children while her wife is away directing a play in another Canadian city (the book is set in Toronto), while dealing with a forthcoming visit from her aging parents. ![]() ![]() So I suppose I was a little apprehensive about MacDonald’s third novel, Adult Onset, published in 2014 - and that’s why it’s taken me so long to get around to reading it. I really loved MacDonald’s debut Fall on Your Knees (which I don’t really remember much of, since I read it maybe 20 years ago), but didn’t care for its follow-up The Way the Crow Flies because it was so bloated - the first 100 pages of a roughly 1,000 page book take place in 15 minutes of a car ride and is nothing but an info dump about the setting and place of the novel, 1960s Southern Ontario. (I’ll be checking my analytics as I go on to see if this approach is really worth it.) One of those books is Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Adult Onset, which I got for Christmas one year. I thought I’d try a little experiment during the summer months and read/review books on my pile of stuff I’ve never gotten around to reading and see if the old adage about books having a long shelf life was true. ![]()
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