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Its a tale as old as time.
Woman moves to the big city and pursues a semi-successful career she only sort of likes.
Woman dates guy who looks good but is not good to her.
Spurred by a family emergency, woman returns home, expecting to hate it.
Woman reconnects with her roots, with her real self, and with the meaning of Christmas.
That arc is familiar for a reason: When done well, it can beverysatisfying.
subgenre of romance stories.
Beth transfers from Manhattan to Long Island so that she can deal with the funeral and her mothers belongings.
I see what youre doing!territory.
There are two different conceptions of what makes a womans story worth taking seriously at play inLife & Beth.
The other is a specific framing for what counts as real and grounded.
The big city is not for you!
We were all happier in a prelapsarian vision of agricultural honesty!
At times,Life & Bethdoes not manage to fully integrate all the pieces its trying to pull together.
