{"id":7488,"date":"2024-06-11T20:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T03:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2024-06-11T20:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T03:23:43","slug":"my-work-suffered-the-laundry-languished-as-i-devoured-these-wonderful-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/my-work-suffered-the-laundry-languished-as-i-devoured-these-wonderful-books\/","title":{"rendered":"My work suffered, the laundry languished as I devoured these wonderful books"},"content":{"rendered":"
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5.0 out of 5 stars<\/span><\/i> Kennedy Girl hits all the high points of idealistic, troubled and iconoclastic 1968. <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Reviewed in Canada \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 on July 15, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n

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I read Kennedy Girl in June 2023 along with it\u2019s precursor, A Theory of Expanded Love<\/strong><\/em>. My work suffered, the laundry languished as I devoured these wonderful books.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two novels follow the transformation of Annie Shea from a gawky twelve year old, desperate to make her mark as # 6 in a Catholic family of thirteen children (fourteen by the novel\u2019s end), into an unstoppable seventeen year old as Kennedy Girl<\/strong><\/em>, the sequel of A Theory of Expanded Love<\/strong><\/em>, opens in Pasadena California in 1968.<\/p>\n

Kennedy Girl<\/strong><\/em>
\n1968. What a year to be seventeen. Hair is opening on Broadway. Bobby Kennedy is campaigning to run for President on a social reform platform. The assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King have unsettled America\u2019s self image for many people, including Annie Shea.<\/p>\n

Annie is cast in a musical revue of songs from Hair, directed by lecherous Father Sullivan and starring Lucas, a charismatic black dancer from a Catholic School in Watts. Annie\u2019s older sister, the rebellious Madcap, is dating a Jew against her parents wishes. Annie\u2019s older brothers are enlisting to fight in Vietnam with the enthusiastic support of their father, a former Commander in the US Navy. What can go wrong when Annie sneaks out of the house to join Madcap and Lucas in working on Bobby Kennedy\u2019s campaign?<\/p>\n

Kennedy Girl<\/strong><\/em> hits all the high points of that idealistic, troubled and iconoclastic year. Feminism, abuse of power, assassination, racism, war, loyalty and duty\u2014these themes effortlessly unfold in this believable multi-layered narrative.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Hicks has come to these novels following a distinguished career as a Canadian playwright, performer, and screen-writer. She has toured internationally in one woman monologue productions. This lived experience as a performer of what she writes has guided the dialogue, diary entries, and self-examination of Annie as she navigates the transition from teen to young woman, from the structured safety of home to the wider world.<\/p>\n

I loved both books, I hope you will too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Customer Review Carole Harmon 5.0 out of 5 stars Kennedy Girl hits all the high points of idealistic, troubled and iconoclastic 1968. Reviewed in Canada \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 on July 15, 2023 I read Kennedy Girl in June 2023 along with it\u2019s precursor, A Theory of Expanded Love. My work suffered, the laundry languished as I devoured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,104,1,197,196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pondering-the-brilliance-of-existence","category-book-reviews","category-fiction","category-kennedy","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7491,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions\/7491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}