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My Last Innocent Year
- A Novel
- By: Daisy Alpert Florin
- Narrated by: Sarah Bierstock
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4 out of 5 stars 37
It’s 1998 and Isabel Rosen, the only daughter of a Lower East Side appetizing store owner, has one semester left at Wilder College, a prestigious school in New Hampshire. Desperate to shed her working-class roots and still mourning the death of her mother four years earlier, Isabel has always felt like an outsider at Wilder but now, in her final semester, she believes she has found her place—until a nonconsensual sexual encounter with one of the only other Jewish students on campus leaves her reeling.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not plot based
- By CK on 02-16-23
- My Last Innocent Year
- A Novel
- By: Daisy Alpert Florin
- Narrated by: Sarah Bierstock
Needs more polish
Reviewed: 02-22-23
The story was relatable to a point, but there were times when I felt I wanted to hurry the author along. As with many authors who incorporate smoking into their characters, the focus felt very heavy on that ritual while the focus on any other ritualistic details of characters seemed light. Lastly, the attempt to refer back to the Monica Lewinsky story and encourage the reader to draw parallels felt forced, popping up out of nowhere from time to time. Overall, the story was good and the time of life it refers to is an area of growth that is always interesting, but it felt like it needed more polishing.
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