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Title: Her books always feel real
Review: What is it about Elizabeth Berg? I read her books and feel as if I am with an old friend, one who knows me, or people I know only too well.Myra Lipinski is a self proclaimed spinster at the age of 51. We have all known girls like Myra in high school, the girl who never seems to `belong'. No boyfriends, no group of girl friends, just there. A nice person, but one nobody ever gets to know. Myra's life changes completely when Chip Reardon, her secret high school crush, comes back home to die from a terminal illness and Myra becomes his nurse.In other hands Myra may have seemed a cold fish and some of the things that happen in the book may have seemed preposterous, but in Berg's capable hands it just works. I think it's because she writes in such a way that we see bits and pieces of ourselves (good and bad), and people we know in all of her characters. Her writing is fluid and accessible and alternating between funny and sad. A very moving and memorable story.
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