![]() ![]() ![]() While Alice is the narrator, the story does not belong to her, but to Frank and Mimi. While she is not outwardly critical of Mimi's decisions regarding Frank's upbringing, as the story is told in first person and exclusively from Alice's point of view, readers are acutely aware of how she really feels, not only about Mimi as a single mother, but also about Frank, whom she comes to love as if he were her own son. ![]() Instantly, though, I found myself drawn into Alice's experience as a publishing assistant trying to keep reclusive author Mimi on track to finish her widely anticipated second novel (think Harper Lee and Go Set a Watchman) and her efforts to keep an eye on Mimi's eccentric son, Frank.Īlice is a twenty-something know-it-all, just like me, and, like me and most other childless twenty-somethings, thinks she knows a helluva lot more about parenting than she really does. ![]() Admittedly, I was very hesitant to start reading Be Frank with Me as I had the dreaded "required-reading-and-exams" flashbacks each time I looked at it, so I didn't actually start reading it until I was sitting on the plane to Denver. ![]()
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