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Reviewed by Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
"The Sometimes Daughter" by Sherri Wood Emmons is a masterpiece study in human dynamics. It is set in the 1960's and a child has just been born at Woodstock. The story is told from the perspective of the child Sweet Judy and is truly insightful. Judy's mother is an ungrounded woman who marries a conventional and stable man. While the mother attempts to raise her "flower child" with haphazard and unconventional decisions, Judy's father and his parents attempt to bring some structure and knowability to the child's young years. Eventually, it proves too much for Judy's mother and she leaves the family and joins a commune. The mother continues in her errant pathway, being attracted to a Persian man and having his child, and then, gravitating toward the Jim Jones cult movement and later, to India where she studies with a guru. During this time, Sweet Judy grows to adolescence and she begins to truly explore the off and on dynamics of her relationship with her mother. Judy does some explorations of her own that force her to see certain aspects of her personality that, left unchecked, could culminate into a life similar to that of her mother.
The character development in this book is marvelous. Readers can identify fully with any number of characters including Judy's father, his fiance, his parents or Judy's friends. The reader will ponder Judy's observations and dilemmas as she grows towards a more mature emotional repertoire which will allow her to accept her mother as she is. I was captivated by the circumstances of a child who fought to make herself both human and humane.
