Life on the Refrigerator Door : Notes Between a Mother and Daughter, a Novel

from lalalibrarian

This book took me about 20 minutes to read and then I cried. Nobody told me it was about breast cancer! It's like when I went to see The Family Stone right after finding out my mom had cancer. So not fair!! It was a good book, though...it reminded me of Feeling Sorry for Celia, which was also wri...

from charlotteg

This book took me a grand total of 45 minutes to read. It has an interesting concept. The entire story is told through notes left on the refrigerator door. The story is of a single mother & her 15 year old daughter. So each page is an average of one or two lines. At first, I was ticked off. Think...

from msimelda

Kuipers could have done more here. Billed as a first novel, it think reads like notes made to sketch out the future of a real novel. It was too easy, too obvious from the start.

from TigerLMS

Claire, 15, and her mother (an obstetrician) are so busy they communicate through notes left on the refrigerator door. The entire book is made up of these notes, and we see the interplay between the two-- the fights, the frustrations, the mother's attempt to put on a brave face when she develops ...

from amandasuttonlcsw

Loved the idea of notes between a mother and daughter that encapsulate both the comings and goings of the household as well as the intimacies of the roller coaster relationship -- intense love and two hours later intense conflict. The author pulled this off seamlessly. Coming from my own single p...