Alice Kuiper's Life on the Refrigerator Door is a novel told through notes, specifically notes between mother and daughter. In their busy lives and seemingly opposite schedules, they find themselves primarily communicating via notes stuck to the refrigerator door. Through these notes, they discover the need to strengthen their relationship, their changing roles as respective working mother and maturing daughter, and how much they need each other when tragedy strikes.
It’s a quick read; it took me an hour and a half to two hours. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t teach it in my classroom, but I might give a book talk on it to introduce a different writing style that some students might enjoy. In this book talk I would also mention that it deals with a painful and difficult topic as well as the ever-changing, but certainly necessary, communication and relationship between mother and daughter. Students who read books like those by Lurlene McDaniel or Nicholas Sparks will probably enjoy this novel and the unique style in which it’s written.
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I like how you make other author recommendations, based on this book. Nice to be able to do that, and to see the connections between author styles/types of books.
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