Jacket Copy: It is the height of summer, and celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house in Dublin to a friend while she is away performing in New York. Alone among all of Molly's possessions, struggling to finish her latest play, she looks back on the many years and many phases of her friendship with Molly and their college friend Andrew, and comes to wonder whether they really knew each other at all. She revisits the intense closeness of their early days, the transformations they each made in the name of success and security, the lies they told each other, and betrayals they never acknowledged. Set over a single midsummer's day, Molly Fox's Birthday is a mischievous, insightful novel about a turning point--a moment when past and future suddenly appear in a new light.
IMHO: The beauty of this book is that it captures the experience of being in a familiar setting or looking at an object you've seen before, and being reminded of past memories and people you've known. The many layers of recollection that can accompany such experiences are part of what makes life so rich and beautiful. The pioneer in this type of writing was Virginia Woolf, and Madden continues the tradition in good faith, following in her footsteps, while adding certain of her own touches to the genre as well.
Similar to: Virginia Woolf, Michael Cunningham, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg Ohio
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