5/21/2023 0 Comments The House Girl by Tara Conklin![]() ![]() This is far from life-changing, but there’s fun to be had. The plot is paper-thin and the tone too cutesy, but Conklin ably conveys Darcy’s state of arrested development, as well as her transition into a stronger person who strives to help her friends despite her anxieties. Coincidences and surprise revelations involving Jake’s scheming lead to a showdown at a town meeting, where the playground’s fate is decided. At the start of her assured and arresting debut novel, 'The House Girl,' Tara Conklin subtly evokes the eventual doom of the cruel and depraved Old South as she describes, through. ![]() Newcomers to town, Marcus and Dan hope to build a playground and open their backyard to the children in the community, a plan that homophobe local Jake-who has his eyes on their property-tries to thwart. Through some odd jobs, Darcy makes new friends like Marcus Dash-LaGrand his husband, Dan and their three kids. Hunkered down in her parents’ house, she insists they come back, but after weeks of solitude, she reluctantly starts looking for work. To her surprise, they’ve just relocated to Arizona, where they’re “trying out” a retirement community. When Skip announces he’s leaving her, she retreats to Murbridge, hoping for a warm embrace from her parents. ![]() Darcy Clipper, 29, works as a junior actuary and lives with her husband, Skip, in Boston. Conklin’s quirky but undercooked latest (after The Last Romantics) follows the travails of a brokenhearted woman as she returns to her Massachusetts hometown. ![]()
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