Community Reviews
You know I am 55 years old right now and I was 17 when I first read this I was married and just trying to be everything to everybody at that time and it was so popular and my mother-in-law My Mother, who were very young when this came out, they liked it and I read it when I was 17 and I thought it was great but now I’m listening to it 55. I’m just like oh my gosh what a bitch I’m so grateful that she was not my neighbor and I cannot believe and I’m horrified that 17-year-old me really found this funny. I know Vashon Island. I know where they live. I lived there myself even wouldn’t connect. I moved there when I was in my late 20s early 30s and the book just didn’t occur to me, but this book does not translate well anymore. It’s vicious. It’s nasty. It’s mean and please don’t get me started on what the Daughter who did the intro tried to excuse us oh My Mother would’ve thought differently but Indians today maybe she would’ve but I don’t think she would’ve thought differently about her Neighbors. I just feel so horribly that her neighbors had to live near this author, and I’m shocked that I ever thought this was funny almost 40 years ago good Lord and butter.
