Roar

Roar by Cecelia Ahern   288 pages

I loved this book!    Cecelia Ahern explores the many facets that are a woman's sense of self developing them in fanciful extremes to really bring attention to those minor things women sometimes see as much bigger issues.    The stories while dealing with real issues are so exaggerated that the reader can see the fun the writer was having putting word to page.    The woman who comes undone actually catches her sleeve on a chair as she goes by and doesn't realize until her son asks her where her right arm is that it had actually ravelled off onto the floor the sweater sleeve and her arm along with it to the point as she keeps going ignoring her problem that she is coming completely undone and her sisters scoop her up in a sand pail and take her to a pub to chill out and they sit the pail up on the bar and pour her drink into it.  She continues to chat with them finally asking them to help her get herself together and get out of the pail before she can't.   They do and with a few missing pieces she comes back to herself enough to walk out of the bar.   Come to find out later in the story her sisters were hiding the fact they were unravelling here and there, too.   So many great inventions to describe so many of the things the female of the species goes through and told in such jolly ways.  I really enjoyed this one.    I highly recommend this one to all adult females who have gone through and get the reality of what is being worked out in the stories.   Best of all you will laugh more than half the way through each one.   Told with intelligence and humor.   New ways of laughing at many of the things we think are so dire at the time but in retrospect we can see the funny side - these stories show the funny side straight away.   Well done, Cecelia Ahern.