Review of Borrowing My Mother’s Saints by Olga G. Soaje
5 Stars
Although Chick Lit is not my favourite genre, “Borrowing My
Mother’s Saints” has a depth and warmth and heartstrings-tugging that kept me
interested, intrigued, and enjoying. Julianna (“Julie”) is a Manhattan career
girl, eight years in advertising after graduation from NYU, with a “serious
relationship” with hard-driving egotistical Michael, and a couple of long-term
warm friendships. Julie was raised staunchly Catholic and attended parochial
private schools. She fondly remembers her mother’s prayer cards to saints. When
something or someone (such as colleague Nancy, who is determined to flow up the
career ladder no matter how many others she stomps on) pulls the thread of
Julie’s intact life and everything starts to unravel, she begins to remember
those saints and to ponder on whom to ask to intercede to fix her life again.
Almost every reader can identify with Julie’s dilemma, and
how sometimes it is only when we hit rock bottom that we find a new way out, a
new pattern of life, a new path and life purpose. I anticipate future novels
from author Olga G. Soaje.
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