Rooms by lauren oliver5/12/2023 Trenton has clearly had a difficult time, too. Minna is caustic towards Trenton and indifferent toward her daughter. The Walker children don’t seem to have happy post-divorce memories of their father. He was the most beautiful child….” She can’t quite believe that the “absurdly tall, skinny adolescent, with the sullen look and dingy-dark hair” who stumbles into the house all these years later is the same boy. Alice has tender feelings towards Trenton, who she remembers as a young child claiming that “For years, I’ve longed to see Trenton. Sandra and Alice, in particular, are trapped by their memories, which Sandra claims are “thick as mud.” These two women watch the Walker family stumble around with varying degrees of affection and distaste. Mostly they are stories of loss and dysfunction. The house is inhabited by two ghosts: Sandra and Alice.Īll of these characters have stories to tell. Richard, Charlotte’s ex and the children’s father, has died and now it’s been left to them to pick up the pieces. They aren’t alone. They’ve returned to the house they once called home to pack things up. Rooms is the story of the Walker family, alcoholic mother Charlotte twenty-something Minna, her single-mother daughter, and Amy, her granddaughter and Trenton, her awkward teenage son. Lauren Oliver is well-known in the YA fiction world, but Rooms is her first novel for adults…although the distinction hardly matters, really.
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