Amy Sue Nathan (–2024)
Author of The Last Bathing Beauty
Works by Amy Sue Nathan
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- Birthdate
- 20th century
- Date of death
- 2024-02-23
- Gender
- Female
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Maplewood, New Jersey, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Education
- Temple University
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- Works
- 6
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 455
- Popularity
- #53,951
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 45
- ISBNs
- 27
Ah the 60s where women had to be well-behaved and cater to their husbands. How times have changed. Just reading this book made me cringe sometimes how women were supposed to stay home, and not have a profession and be ready for their husbands to come home from work and have dinner ready, etc. Ruth (the main character) was not like that. Even though she and Asher, her new husband lived with his parents, she graduated law school and was studying for the bar exam though her in-laws didn't know this.
Her mother-in-law wanted her to fit in too with the “high class” women of Philadelphia. Ruth lived in New York before she got married. She sent her to an etiquette class first run by her now her best friend Lillian. She made friends here with three other women who were totally different from her lifestyle of course but she tried to fit in.
I finally connected the dots with the characters with about 100 pages left and it was not what I expected or maybe I did. Lillian and Shirley were hiding secrets of their own from their past but Lililan's was out in the open earlier in the book.
I love a good epilogue and this was one of the best.
Let me close with this and I have to quote the later author's last line in her acknowledgements, which really made me emotional. “If you'd like to supply chocolate as I write my next novel, let me know.” Sorry she never got to write her next novel.
R.I.P. Amy Sue Nathan. You will be missed in my reading world.… (more)