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Book descriptionMy reviews of Lucy Knisley’s previous works have revealed some ambivalence on my part: She’s great when writing about travel or food, but at a certain point a little more emotional investment is required, by both the writer/artist and the reader. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t need to know every gory detail of a writer’s life, but I feel like Knisley alludes to heavier thingsвЂ"depression in her family, her parents’ divorce, the (apparently not great) way her father treats his girlfriendsвЂ"and then quickly dashes back to something less interesting, something that goes down more easily and is as facile as a not-very-good TV drama. The problems she does talk about are usually pretty minor in the grand scheme of things, and as a result she often comes off, to me, as entitled and whiny, and her books can be unsatisfyingly callow. I thought 2014’s An Age of License was her worst offender to date, and it made me reluctant to read subsequent books. However, I recently read Displacement (2015) and thought it was a little better in this regard, so I was prepared to give Something New a try.Unfortunately, this book has all of the problems typical of Knisley’s work, without much else to make it appealing. At the beginning, we learn Lucy and her beloved boyfriend John had broken up because they disagreed about whether to have kids. Lucy then spends four years dating around, including a brief relationship with a delightful Swedish dude who she kicks to the curb because she needs her space. At the end of the four years, John comes around to Lucy’s feelings about kids and proposes immediately. Oh, thank God Lucy got proposed to while she was still 29! Can you imagine if she had made it to 30 still single?!? To be fair, Lucy doesn’t allude to her age in this way, but she does make it seem as if her four years of relative singlehood were one of the worst experiences a person could ever have ever. How many people can seriously sympathize with this, particularly in a twentysomething? Honestly, Lucy, if this is the biggest problem you can dredge up, you have it pretty good.But don’t worry, Lucy can dredge up more problems! These have to do with the fact that she and John decide to have a wedding (as opposed to getting married at city hall) because Lucy is afraid to defy her parents’ wishes. (Um… if you can’t stand up to your parents, you may not be mature enough to get married. Just saying.) But the PROBLEM with having a WEDDING, you see, is that there is just SO much PRESSURE to have a certain kind of ceremony! Who can possibly withstand it? Poor Lucy and John, “forced” to have a lovely wedding that is almost entirely paid for by other people. It’s so tough, y’all, it really is.Lucy and John deal with the “pressure” to have a storybook wedding by making many of the wedding-related items themselves, including decorations, favors, etc. They get the food at a discount because Lucy’s mom, a retired chef and caterer, knows so many people in this line of work. The venue is free because Lucy’s mom has a barn built on her property for them to use (oh, thank God!). It’s hard to know what the purpose of all this is. Ostensibly Lucy is trying to let other brides know that they don’t have to conform to societal expectations of what a wedding “should” be and can do things their own way. But how many brides have the creative skills, the funds, and the connections Lucy does? She’s like a twentysomething Martha Stewart on crack. If I were planning a wedding, this book would intimidate me just as much as any wedding magazine, and possibly more.But I’m not planning a wedding, and honestly, only people planning a wedding could find a 300-page graphic memoir about wedding planning interestingвЂ"and that’s being charitable; I’m sure there are plenty of people planning a wedding who would find this just as mind-numbing as I did. There’s just not enough new here to be interesting, and far too much whining to engender much sympathy.True to Knisley’s usual MO, she does touch on an actual interesting problem: the fact that marrying someone of the opposite sex tends to result in an erasure of bisexuality. Unfortunately, she dwells on this for approximately three seconds before moving on to other concerns, such as the fact that her mother wants to pay for a band for the wedding, while Lucy wants recorded music. Oh, the humanity.What bothered me most about this book is that Knisley clearly thinks she’s writing some revolutionary manifesto against the wedding industry here, but she just isn’t. Like many other American brides, she spends a lot of money and time on her wedding, essentially making it the focus of her life for a year. She sets a very high standard that not a lot of brides can live up to, but seems oblivious to this. And that obliviousness is my major problem with this work. There are books that are subversive and there are books that are trite, but the last kind of book I want to read is a book that thinks it’s subversive but is just so tiresomely trite.I won this book from the publisher, First Second, in a Shelf Awareness giveaway. Thank you and I’m sorry, First Second. I ordinarily love your stuff, but I just couldn’t love this.Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley (Goodreads Author) get without registering value download find
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