Saint Mazie

by Jami Attenberg

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“We all lose sometimes. Life’s plenty easy when you’re winning. It’s what you do when you’re down. That’s the real test.”

When I started this book I was really looking forward to hearing about how Mazie helped so many people out and what had made her want to help so many people in the first place. When we do finally get to this part it is extremely interesting to me especially how she made friends with a certain person and really learned how to truly help people in a good way.. The majority of this story is about Mazie's family and how she interacted with them. This is an extremely important part of who Mazie is and why she is the way she is. At times though I did want her to help out her sister more though and realize that she needed help with certain things.

Attenberg did an amazing job of making you see New York throughout the 1920 - 1940 and made you feel like you really could imagine being there while you were reading.

Since this is a fictionalized biography of sorts there is a lot of blank spaces and a lot of things that never get touched on except for briefly making you feel slightly disconnected at times.

“there’s just so many goddamn things we never get to know. We’re not entitled to all the truth.”

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