Book Report #113 - The Fiction Class

The Fiction Class by Susan Breen

I'm about to begin teaching a creative writing class to teenage girls so I picked this novel up for some inspiration.

Arabella Hicks has taught creative writing to a motley crew of New Yorkers for years. This year she teaches the class on Wednesday afternoons and then goes to see her mother at her rest home for their weekly visit.

The story started off slow but I stuck with it and soon felt that the character development paid off. I didn't particularly like Arabella or her mother or any of Arabella's students but they intrigued me. I was moved to see compassion blossoming throughout the class. The characters brought tears of joy more than once and while Arabella's relationship with her mother was trying, their growth was so striking I cried more than I did at The Notebook and then felt an urge to overnight the book to my mom so she could share the experience.

General consensus: Pretty good.