What makes a woman!

Mia's husband, neuroscientist, leaves her for a "pause" temporary. The "Pause" is young and he pretended to be beneficial. Mia crack nervously. After his hospitalization in psychiatry, she leaves New York to be closer to her mother who lives in a retirement home. Cinquantenaire, poet, this is a woman who engages straightforward. With strength, weakness, humor and sensitivity.

This book is wonderful, beautiful, touching, funny and just !!! A hymn to women from all angles. The teenager, wife, mother, wife released, loving woman, the independent woman or not, working women, women in later life ... Each will recognize through Mia or through the characters women of this novel. Women of all ages and generations. If her husband bathes in science, Mia is a poet. From a situation or a speech, and poems to come back to him. Through these traits minds, we understand oh literature and poetry are a source that draws Mia and resource. After 30 years of marriage, she raises legitimate questions about his marriage, on the habits that corrode love and her husband. It engages through introspection without taboos. The teenage group she teaches refers us to the beginnings of girls and concerns of their age. Mia is near her mother's friends. Cheerful women brightly despite their health problems. Observing, listening, she is tied to friendship with Abigail, nonagenarian with nimble hands. Abigail whose embroideries have two sides: the agreed to delight the eyes and libertarian where eroticism is master. She meets her young neighbor, Lola, unhappy couples. Mia feeds experiences and intended or not roles that life gives to all those women, mother and daughter understood.
Through this past summer in Minnesota, Mia is rebuilt. All of its meetings allow him to have a shiny new look of unequaled humor and feminism. This novel is heavily on the place of women, man in society and it delivers the essence of what makes a woman!

To say that I liked this book would be a lie because I loved it !!! I vibrated, I was moved, often ironic and fierce humor Mia me entertained. But above all, I had this feeling of understanding Mia!
Writing Hustdvedt Siri is beautiful, unusual and I took my time to read this book. There are so subtle, reflections that emerge! A novel to put all hands of women (to offer and afford!).
A book hedgehog as j 'y have inserted bookmarks I reread over the years that elapse because I'm sure he still brings me a lot!