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Ernest Poole: His Family (EBook, 2021, Standard Ebooks) 2 stars

Roger Gale, a media-monitoring business owner nearing retirement, observes life in early 20th century New …

Could not get excited about His Family

2 stars

Roger Gale has three daughters, a traditional married homebody, a free spirit who gallavants around the world, and a driven professional. Most of His Family is Roger either thinking about his daughters and what they should do, or trying to talk them into doing what he thinks they should do. Only Deborah, the professional who wants to improve the lives of New York's tenement dwellers, is interesting. And there only when the story doesn't veer into the possibility of her getting married and living the more traditional life that Roger wants her to. Plodding and dreary.