Her battles with her mother over her sexuality and her life feel honest and form a barrier that must be overcome as their family faces up to some difficult problems. Lorraine’s love of animals and desperate attempts to help her family make her an interesting and rounded narrator. The novel is slow to start off with and seems predictable, but becomes more engaging as the complexities of the Tyler family come to the forefront. Though the novel starts off seeming like a ‘girl escapes conservative small town for a bright future and romance after battling adversity’ type narrative, it becomes something different, a story also focused on Lorraine’s twin sister Becky’s troubles and their mother’s secrets from the past. The book is narrated by Lorraine, who dreams of escaping her small hometown of Bend to go to college and become a vet, but faces prejudice from her family and religious hometown due to her attraction to girls. Bend is a novel about a family in small town Minnesota whose relationships and beliefs are tested as they face the truth of each other and a big event threatens to rip them apart.
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