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Starcarbon Ellen Gilchrist 9780316314626 Books Reviews

This book is fabulous. This was the first book I read about her crazy, intertwined Southern clan. Once I read this, all I wanted to do was sit down and read every book she ever wrote about these people. What impressed me the most was the descriptions of the emotions people felt throughout the story. Each of her characters has a distinct and slightly zany personality. Equipped with a wide range of strong emotions, they all are pondering major life decisions throughout the book. She blends the three stories together masterfully. As I read her other books, I am impressed with how she creates an entire world that revolves around a massive network of characters who are all related by blood or situtation. In case you can't keep up, use the family tree at the front of Starcarbon.
Daniel, handsome, just sub-50, an alcoholic, miserable in love but still in there pitching, scion of a wealthy and Gothic southern family nearing genteel bankruptcy, is the focus of a sprawling and at times tedious novel by a writer with much more talent than discipline.

Daughter Jessie, barely into her 20s, has just had a baby with a reckless youth doing his best against long odds to settle down. Daughter Olivia -- who gets the most screen time, but this seems almost accidental -- is in love with a cowboy but tortured by indecision over where she fits. She was romantically raised by her late mother's Cherokee family in Oklahoma. her father only learned of her existence when she was in high school.

There are lots more characters, and all of them have too much to say. It's another book that dares to include scenes in the therapist's office -- please do spare us these wise and patient therapists! Still, the writing is assured and the characters, from Cherokee grandpas to New Orleans dope dealers to Irish poets in love are all credible.
I have been reading all of Ellen Gilchrist's books in the order they were written, so I was familiar with Olivia, Jessie, Helen, and many of the other characters in this book. Continuing the family saga was a rich, satisfying experience. There was new gossip, new plot twists, but also a deepening of the characterizations. Olivia is more her own person and less the unhappy rebel thrown into the family. Helen is in love, and blossoms.

I especially liked the variety of settings in the different storylines. King and Jessie are in New Orleans, Helen is in Boston, and Olivia is back in Oklahoma, where the heart and meat of the book take place. Only a few pages take place at the Starcarbon Ranch in Montana, yet the beautiful description makes it permeate the book, idealized like the Garden of Eden.

The minor characters get enough loving attention from the author that I'd like to see more of them and feel like they'd be just as rich as the main characters-- the brother Niall, in particular.

There's a little less glorification of gee-whiz science in this book than there was in Gilchrist's books about Anna Hand, and I'm glad about that. I felt the number of psychiatrists and the spouting of their theories, however, got to be a little much. It also made the book feel somewhat dated, back to the 1950s or 1970s when psychoanalysis was in vogue.

I finished the book hoping I'd see these characters again, and wanting to visit the places in this book.
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