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Machine Dreams
Machine Dreams | Jayne Anne Phillips
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In her highly acclaimed debut novel, the bestselling author of Shelter introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly affected by the extraordinary events of history. Here is a stunning chronicle that begins with the Depression and ends with the Vietnam War, revealed in the thoughts, dreams, and memories of each family member. Mitch struggles to earn a living as Jeans becomes the main breadwinner, working to coplete college and raise the family. While the couple fight to keep their marriage intact, their daughter Danner and son Billy forge a sibling bond of uncommon strength. When Billy goes off to Vietnam, Danner becomes the sole bond linking her family, whose dissolution mirrors the fractured state of America in the 1960s. Deeply felt and vividly imagined, this lyrical novel is "among the wisest of a generation to grapple with a war that maimed us all" (The Village Voice), by a master of contemporary fiction.
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I loved this book so much that when I turned the final page, I hugged the book to my body and just sat with it a while. I love the style of alternating stories, shifting perspectives, working the story from the outside and slowly closing in on the important pieces. Phillips allows me to get to know her characters as an observer instead of describing their personalities in obvious ways. "She would always be herself, pretty and tarnished."