Boyle seems to have matured, too, as he pushes the envelope with emotions along with exaggerated character sketches and plot twists. Not only are there literal and figurative fish out of water, it also deals with the conflict between man and nature, a topic he’s deftly covered many times. I’ve returned to Boyle several times in the last decade, but none of his work provoked me like his earlier books did.īlue Skies recaptures the magic. I drifted away from him and explored other authors. His absurdist fish-out-of-water protagonists were enjoyable and identifiable to someone trying to figure out life and adulthood. I named Boyle, whenever asked, as my favorite author when I was in my 20s – way back when.
In that reprieve, I thought about the book and the characters enough that I realized Boyle had done a phenomenal job getting me invested in the main characters, and it would be worth pushing through my discomfort to finish it. Intimate and captivating, Finding My Way follows an ambitious woman who reached the highest pinnacles of a political career while simultaneously fulfilling her own quest to heal from family trauma and discover her true identity.There is a plot event so tragic in this book I had to put it down for a few days, unsure of whether I would return to it. Robin eventually ascended to work for the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama and, in the meantime, created her own family by adopting two sons from Kazakhstan. She felt that if she could understand why he abandoned her, she could free herself from secrets, lies, and shame. Through it all, Robin searched for her biological father. Street-smart and undeniably driven, once in the professional world Robin quickly ascended in the male-dominated political sphere, traveling the globe while being subjected to sexual harassment and assaults that echoed obstacles her mother and grandmother had faced. In a world of self-absorbed adults, Robin largely raised herself: she secured a scholarship to a prestigious private school and worked several jobs as a teenager to pay her own living expenses before finally escaping to California for college. Her childhood in a German American neighborhood on the Upper East Side was peppered with half-truths, from the family secrets surrounding her grandmother’s immigration to deceptions about her biological father. Schepper never imagined that she’d one day have an office in the East Wing of the White House. Growing up torn between her single Pan Am-stewardess mom and brothel-owning grandmother in 1960s New York City, Robin F. A deeply personal memoir about finding family and belonging from White House staffer Robin F.
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