Hope - Andrew Ridker

 Hope - Andrew Ridker

Publication Date:  July 11, 2023

She read

It is 2013 and the Greenspans live comfortably in Brookline Massachusetts.  Scott is a physician, Deb, a former dancer, is now active in her synagogue resettling refugees, son Gideon is on the path to medical school, and daughter Maya works for a publishing company.  But then Scott, needing extra money, is found to have falsified blood samples in a research study.  Deb leaves him for her female lover, Gideon drops out of school and ends up in the Middle East, and Maya gets involved with a former teacher with whom she had a crush and loses her job. 

This is well written, told from various POVs.  There is humor and the author does capture the times and the lifestyles of people of a certain socioeconomic strata.  While the book held my attention, I just didn’t engage with any of the characters.  

Thanks to #netgalley and #penguingroup #viking for the ARC.

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