The Wednesday Sisters

It is the Sixties in the Bay Area. Ah, this seems so familiar! As I read along about the five women who meet in the park every Wednesday, with their kiddies, the whole thing feels like it could have happened in my life. That's what is wonderfully cozy about this book. The reader feels the connection between the women and gets a little peek into their lives. The first-person narrator is one of the women, so the whole... Read Full Review

"The Wednesday Sisters look like the kind of women who might meet at those fancy coffee shops on University --- we do look that way --- but we're not one bit fancy, and we're not sisters, either. We don't even meet on Wednesdays anymore, although we did at the beginning." So begins Meg Waite Clayton's lyrical novel of the friendships forged among five different women who come together by chance. In the tumultuous years of... Read Full Review

In the late 1960s the five young mothers meet in Palo Alto at a park. They have plenty in common as they dream of being much more than just a wife and mother while hearing tales of the counter culture and the Summer of Love. The quintet love books especially those they can escape into so they can forget their somewhat tedious lives especially the household chores, but each sees a different role for the lead female characters... Read Full Review

I loved this book. Of course there is the girlfriend thing, but what charmed me was the reminders of the late 1960s and early 1970s. I was surprised to realize that so many significant political events happened in such a short time when I was in high school. Meg Clayton beautifully captures the early discussions about feminism and other shifts in our social norms. Meg delivers this walk down memory lane in the delightful company... Read Full Review

I received The Wednesday Sisters through the Early Reviewer program at LibraryThing. It's an excellently written story about friendship and family (and especially how friends can grow into being more than just friends, they can become family too). From the moment I started reading, I knew that this was going to be a great book. The story revolves around no-nonsense, athletic Linda, super smart Brett, quiet Frankie, Southern... Read Full Review