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ainiali's review
3.0
This is a really short story from the author original collection and it's about a widow that get to know a film director when he mistaken her for an old movie actress.
bhavani's review
3.0
Rating: 3.5 stars
Mona is a 68-year old beautiful and vain woman passing herself off as a 61-year old. Recently widowed, she lives alone in a condo with the inheritance left to her by her fourth husband. She spends her days walking and drinking chocolate concoctions at the Starbucks near her condo. One day, she is approached by a young man, Brian, who flatters her and says that she can become a movie star, which she does but not quite in the same way you'd expect...
The story shifts between Mona's inner dialogue, dialogue with people, and a third-person narrator. She is a complex character, both a survivalist and a master manipulator. Since this is a short story, it's difficult to say anything else without revealing too much. Suffice to say that I enjoyed this story like I do almost all of Laura Lippman's tales.
Mona is a 68-year old beautiful and vain woman passing herself off as a 61-year old. Recently widowed, she lives alone in a condo with the inheritance left to her by her fourth husband. She spends her days walking and drinking chocolate concoctions at the Starbucks near her condo. One day, she is approached by a young man, Brian, who flatters her and says that she can become a movie star, which she does but not quite in the same way you'd expect...
The story shifts between Mona's inner dialogue, dialogue with people, and a third-person narrator. She is a complex character, both a survivalist and a master manipulator. Since this is a short story, it's difficult to say anything else without revealing too much. Suffice to say that I enjoyed this story like I do almost all of Laura Lippman's tales.
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