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With her white patent leather platform shoes and love of the Pixies, no one would guess that dreamy Jessica's manual for life is Anne of Green Gables. In this memoir of extraordinary honesty, Jessica journeys through college and the deep bonds of friendship that propel her out of her shell and into a new world. As a shy, sheltered teen, Jessica realizes, as soon as she enters Colorado College, that her fantasy world has not prepared her for the realities of life at this freewheeling academic oasis. Lost, she bonds with six girls in her dorm who dub themselves “The Group” after Mary McCarthy's bestselling 1963 novel. Jessica's Group vows to remain friends forever, avoiding the fate of their namesakes. But even as Jessica fights to save their friendship, time, addictions, and mental illness form cracks in the Group's foundation. And then Jessica, still stuck in her happily-ever-after fantasies, falls for the one guy the Group despises—handsome slacker Malcolm. Set against a mid-1990s pop culture background, the friends experiment with the joys of uninhibited choices and deal with the accompanying pitfalls of sexual pressures, self-image issues, and substance abuse. Exhuming Mary McCarthy is a telling, insightful saga of college life beyond the classroom that will mesmerize readers with bittersweet humor as they journey with Jessica on the path towards adulthood.
- Sales Rank: #4147453 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.25" w x 5.25" l, 1.23 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 498 pages
About the Author
Jessica Lamirand spends time sitting on the couch of her Colorado home with her cat. There she enjoys knitting hats, watching ancient mystery shows on Netflix, reading books, and staring at maps to plot out future vacations—some of which she may actually take some day. Sometimes, she emerges from the couch to create art therapy collages, take thousands of photographs, practice yoga, walk her dogs and ride her bike, and write books such as this one.
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like all McCarthy fans
By Nobody
I am a fan of the underrated novelist Mary McCarthy, and, like all McCarthy fans, am a fan of The Group, her entertaining novel about the lives of eight Vassar graduates, class of 1933.
I could not resist checking out a book with the title Exhuming Mary McCarthy.
In Jessica Lamirand’s intense new memoir, she chronicles her four years in the 1990s at Colorado College, emphasizing her friendship with six girls who call themselves “the group” (after McCarthy’s book). In their free time, they confide, bicker, and experiment with sex, drinking, and drugs.
Written in novelistic fashion, this memoir contains such vivid dialogue and so many well-crafted scenes that I kept flipping back to the title page to make sure it was indeed a memoir, not a novel.
Lamarind’s education at Colorado College, located in Colorado Springs, was an intense experience: students take one class at a time in three-and-a-half-week blocks instead of semesters. Jessica is not a perfect student: she struggles at times, and is content with a mix of A’s and B’s. Mark my words: this readable memoir is an important document of the education of a woman at a small Western college. Most college books are set at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the Seven Sisters colleges, Oxford, or Cambridge. (Indeed, It would seem to us Anglophile readers that, except in David Lodge’s novels and D. J. Taylor’s short story, “Wonderland,” in Wrote for Luck, there are only two schools in England, Oxford and Cambridge.)
The girls are immature when they arrive at CC, though some are more experienced than others. As a freshman, Jessica is a sweet, kind girl who has never dated or been kissed. She brings her complete set of Anne of Green Gables to her dorm room. Indeed, she pays as much tribute to L. M. Montgomery as she does to McCarthy. Her ideal man is Gilbert. She wishes a boy/Gilbert would call her “Carrots” so she/Anne could break a slate over his head and fall in love.
I share Jessica’s enthusiasm for the Anne books. She writes,
The Anne of Green Gables series had always been my very favorite books. From the first time I read them in sixth grade, I had been guilelessly enchanted by Anne and all of L. M. Montgomery’s other characters. I thought Anne and I were a lot alike. WE both daydreamed too much and then got in trouble for not paying attention. We both made lots of laughable mistakes and were none the wiser for having survived them. We both knew that imagination was a gift not to be wasted…. We both longed to find kindred spirits.
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Jessica’s strongest bond in the group is with Sophie, another avid reader and a fan of L. M. Montgomery. The group also includes: Selena (a pothead who has a lot of tantrums), Aspen (a Native American who has a pet rabbit and wants to be a virgin until she marries), Hannah (anorexic, depressive, and promiscuous), Julie (a science major), Leigh (a loud pro-choice advocate who is also, oddly, a Nixon fan and becomes a pothead), and Cassandra (a Spanish major who is balanced and loyal and remains one of Jessica’s closest friends after they graduate).
The girls seem very young: they write about their crushes in their “Stalker’s notebook,” anxiously go to dances and ogle boys in the cafeteria, and smoke pot and drink. Jessica does not smoke pot: the one time she does, she is traumatized and terrified. They also listen to a lot of R.E.M. One of their favorites songs is “Exhuming McCarthy,” i.e., Joseph McCarthy, not Mary.
Jessica has her ups and downs. She starts out an English major, but switches to art history. As a sophomore, she falls in love with Malcolm, aka Thomas, an unemployed stoner and member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, who has been passed around from Julie to Hannah and now to Jessica. He is not a student, and though he occasionally works at Subway, she ends up supporting him at two jobs. When she is seriously ill, Malcolm always leaves, saying he can’t afford to get sick.
Majoring in” boyfriend,” as I call it, is always a problem for women. I doubled in School of Letters and “boyfriend” as an undergrad, and in classics and “boyfriend” as a grad student. If you major in boyfriend, you have to make tough choices: you can’t be all there for every class because you have a relationship to tend.
Let me be up-front: this really does read like a novel. It is slightly reminiscent of Pamela Dean’s classic novel, Tam Lin, which takes us year by year through English major Janet’s life at Blackstock College (Carleton College in Minnesota). But since I like novels, writing like a novelist is a good thing.
The group eventually splinters, and some go down the dark road of drugs, but these friendships remain a seminal experience in Jessica’s life.
I very much enjoyed this, though the McCarthy connection is unclear at first. The most detail is given to the first year, and afterwards it is occasionally repetititious, but by the end of the book you understand why she has structured it as she has, and it is powerful. (You have to stick it out to the end.)
Uneven, but a good read, and a historical document!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
I was completely enchanted by the creative antics of these eight very unique friends.
By Pat Gulya
Reading Exhuming Mary McCarthy (EMM) is like living the college years on Jessica’s shoulder and being privy to her thoughts and motives. The reader can’t help but relive her own college years and compare and contrast. Jessica’s self-defacing voice reminds me of Elizabeth Gilbert’s, Eat, Pray, Love (EPL). When I picked up EPL and began reading, I found it hard to put it down and I was equally compelled to continue reading EMM.
I was completely enchanted by the creative antics of these eight very unique friends: from an elaborate funeral for, Flannery, a pet rat to visiting with a friend in a mental home after her near breakdown. Jessica captures each of the friend’s unique personalities with her true dialogue and captivating descriptions. The book pages flew by, bringing me too quickly to the end.
Parents should read this book to find out what really happens during college. Jessica gives us the complete truth about classes, teachers, eating in the cafeteria, living in the dorm, boyfriends, hopes and dreams . We watch the group blossom and grow, although not always agreeing with decisions and often cringing at the consequences and outcomes.
I highly recommend this page-turning memoir and wait anxiously for more from this fresh new author.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
I recommend this book to everyone
By Coco
Given To Me For An Honest Review
Exhuming Mary McCarthy by Jessica Lamirand is a must read for those beginning college, parents and grandparents. Once you open this book, it will grab you tightly and hold you down and then you'll just watch those pages turn and turn and turn some more until you get to the last one. This is one book that you will find it hard to put down. This is the memoir of the author. This is her coming of age story. She shares about classes, teachers, eating in the cafeteria, living in the dorm, boyfriends, hopes and dreams. The experience that we've all been through is shared and to our surprise - - we've all survived. This is told with a bit of humor, grace and insight. I recommend this book to everyone. I look for more from Jessica Lamirand.
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