Chapter One Hundred Sixty-Five: Lucky Us

So after a crazy spring, I'm finally coming into some free time again and will be updating my blog again, regularly, I hope!  First up: Lucky Us, by Amy Bloom.  This is one of many books my grandmother gave me that I'm finally getting around to reading, so it's not something I would have picked out on my own, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.  Lucky Us follows half sisters Iris and Eva and their haphazard family of misfits from Ohio to Hollywood to New York City in the late 1930s and into the 1940s. While Iris is the aspiring actress and Eva seems to be the sidekick wandering aimlessly through Iris's life, Eva is really the heart of this story, even as some chapters consist not of Eva's first person narration but of letters from Iris or other characters.  This story has a sort of emotionally detached feeling that doesn't usually appeal to me, but for some reason the dispassionate distance between me and the characters really worked with this story, and I enjoyed it immensely.