The novel weaves together the lives of three female protagonists, each of whom faces their own struggles and shows their own particular type of resilience. A Lifetime of Men is an exquisite book, one that jumped straight to the top of my favorites list. She wants answers, but to find them, she risks destroying her closest relationships.
Her mother told her he died years ago, but the book suggests their story had a different ending.Īlmost overnight, everything Tolan thought she knew about herself and her family has changed. Tolan is pretty sure that Michael is her father. They bond over their shared outcast status, and their friendship quickly becomes intimate, but the relationship antagonizes the self-appointed moral watchdogs in their small town, who start to convert their threats into action. She’s more clear about the relationship between her mother and Michael, a man twelve years her senior.
Her mother appears to be associated with Bo, a feisty photojournalist who flies to Cuba in pursuit of a story and becomes embedded with Castro’s rebels, but Tolan can’t quite work out their connection. She’s hoping for answers, but instead, she finds more mysteries tucked away in her mother’s past. But when she finds a manuscript on her mother’s computer that promises to reveal the true story, Tolan only hesitates for a moment before curiosity compels her to read on. Tolan has always let her mother have one secret - how she got that scar on her face - playing along with her mother’s game of inventing outlandish tales to explain the wound away. 2020-2021 Reader Views Reviewer's Choice Awards: Winner, Mid Atlantic Region Bronze Medal, General Fiction
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