Younger

Alice has always looked young for her age, even with her graying hair and her dowdy New Jersey housewife style. Make that ex-housewife: Now that her husband's gone and her daughter is grown, Alice is in desperate need of a whole new life. So she lets her best friend Maggie, a hip New York City artist, transform her on New Year's Eve. Soon, thanks to the wonders of hair dye and tight jeans, Alice looks really young, as one night in a Manhattan bar confirms. At midnight, she kisses a boy who was in diapers when she was in high school.

The white lie Alice tells Josh gets her thinking that if no one asks her age, she doesn't have to tell. So she applies for a job she had briefly before becoming a full-time mom -- and gets it. Meanwhile, Josh is falling head over heels for Alice, who's just way cooler than girls his age. He figures she's about twenty-nine -- and for the first time since she was twenty-nine, or possibly ever, Alice feels that life is ripe with possibility. Unfortunately one possibility is that she's gonna get caught.

Challenging the adage that the truth will set you free, Younger is a hilarious and insightful story that proves that you're only as young as you feel.

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

fun but bad ending, 2008-12-10
This was a fun book to read especially for us 40ish chicks who fantasize about younger men. The ending to the book was horrible, however. It's like she either got tired of writing and just quit and never finished the story or she couldn't decide what to do with the story and let it go. It just stopped. There should have been at least one more chapter and a more definite ending.


0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

Younger, 2008-10-11
Took quite a while to get here but book was in condition described. Thank you.


0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Slow and boring it didn't do it for me., 2007-06-12
44 year old Alice and her best friend Maggie decide to spend New Year's Eve together in Manhattan only Alice didn't plan to change her looks to look like a 29 year old blond girl. She wishes to be younger and she is made to look younger by her gay friend Maggie.
This is the story of a woman who left her job to raise her child and forgot what she had dreamt for herself in the process.
Her hubby leaves her for a younger woman (almost like their daughter's age) and she is left to find out who she is and what she can become.

I found the story weak and faulty, it didn't do it for me since the main character is too redundant for my style, and she asks herself the same question tons of times instead of voicing it just once. It felt like a boring tale of a woman who wants to work again but has lost her direction and ventures one more time in the quicksand that is the workplace nowadays.
Of course there is a guy a 25 year old guy in fact who she meets kisses and falls in love with but of course she had to let him go, asking herself several times what to do and how to live her romance without her daughter knowing etc etc.

I don't recommend it.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

A different kind of coming of age., 2007-05-24
This is a really entertaining book. So entertaining, in fact, that I read it in a few hours. I would say that it's a coming of age novel, in a different way. Even though it didn't quite end how I thought it would, I was still happy with the many possibilities Alice Green has to offer the world. Go Pamela Satran. Thanks for a great novel.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Good for all ages!, 2007-03-29
I am 29 and I appreciated the young and older perspectives in this book. It was much more entertaining than I had anticipated. Great beach book!

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