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As a woman chemist for 45 years, I looked forward to GIVE ME YOUR HAND. What great potential existed in a story of two female postdocs competing within a group of men for two positions on a groundbreaking research project led by the esteemed Dr. Severin, also a woman! And a mystery story, too!

Kit Owens and Diane Fleming meet in high school. Both exceptional students, they are inspired when the elegant Dr. Severin addresses their school about the wonders of scientific research. Despite socioeconomic and personality differences, Kit and Diane become study buddies, spending many evenings at Kit’s humble home poring over science homework. Kit is described as the more typical teenager who favors cutoffs and tee shirts, while Diane wears prairie skirts and blouses with high neck collars. When Diane begins to share a dark secret with Kit, I assumed it was of a sexual nature. Unless I missed it, the author never explained Diane’s bizarre choice of clothing.

The secret IS the story. Kit carries the burden with her even as she achieves the first rung of her prize. She postdocs for Dr. Severin with a group of male chemists. To her shock and dismay, Dr. Severin brings her now-nemesis, Diane, into the group soon before the prestigious project will be staffed.

As I learn more details of Diane’s secret, I remembered a television program, FORENSIC FILES, that told the same story a few years ago. A quick Google search turned up the story of Marie Robards, a Fort Worth high school student who shared the identical secret with her friend that Diane told Kit. Even stranger is an identical English class on Hamlet that plays into the secret. Stranger yet, the dialogue I found between Marie and her friend detailed in TEXAS MONTHLY was also identical to the words exchanged between Kit and Diane. I then assumed that GIVE ME YOUR HAND was a fictionalization of the Marie Robards story.

As the Kit, Diane and Dr. Severin story slowly progresses, it bears no resemblance to the Marie Robards story, but I began to lose interest. I have no idea why Ms. Abbot used minute details of the Marie Robards story (which might have been more interesting than this book), but after comparing the actual dialogue to the words exchanged between Kit and Diane, I was more than confused, especially when I found no attribution.

The description of life as a chemistry postdoc was accurate, but Ms. Abbot should have minimized the narrative about the actual lab work. Most of it is superfluous, and a key part of the story is flat wrong. The competition among the postdocs for the research slots is spot on. The chemists who have toiled for years, barely scraping by financially, know that careers are predicated by prime research positions, and the competition is cutthroat.

I was disappointed by a book that held much promise. The story began to drag, and the ending was predictable. I expected more.


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Give Me Your Hand Megan Abbott 9780316547185 Books Reviews

When you write a novel as great as The End Of Everything, it’s gotta be tough to match it. I subsequently read The Fever, which was somewhat absorbing, but tedious. Next, Give Me Your Hand—more absorbing than The Fever, but like The Fever, with characters that don’t penetrate too deeply. Kit becomes aware of a secret held by the ultimately inscrutable, diaphanous Diane. The secret is pretty well telegraphed. And it’s not even that interesting a secret. Sure, it’s a disturbing secret. But we’re supposed to believe it tormented Kit for years, who presently deals with her involvement in a gruesome horror with a weirdly non-traumatized, detached equanimity? I found that to be a bit psychologically contradictory, not so reconcilable. The novel is pretty gripping, although, as with The Fever, it drags on at least 30 pages too long.
Reviewing this book, filled with confessions as it is, I have one of my own I am a huge fan of Megan Abbott. “Give Me Your Hand,” is compelling reading, perfect for Summer on the beach or a cold Winter’s night.
GMYH displays Abbott’s consummate skill as a weaver of guilt and innocence, of naivety and jadedness, of then and now. And, of course, of irony and unintended consequences.
I won’t try to summarize the plot, thick as it is with twists and turns and multiple meanings in so many scenes. Abbott’s brilliance is everywhere throughout this book; her stunning capture of the mysteries of human behavior adorn this story in a way most compelling.
I will not lie, there is a moment when I found suspension of disbelief difficult, but the story is so urgent and captivating I just didn’t care and let it go.
This is a great read, steeped in Dostoyevsky and Freud, that simply satisfies and rewards the reader.
It’s as if any book with a woman as the antagonist is compared to Gone Girl. It is annoying and misleading. Bottom line, this book lacks any characters to like—not the bad girl, the “good” girl or the women they are both obsessed with—and that makes the whole thing unlikeable. The best part of the book is the selfishness laden letter from the bad girl’s mother to the good girl. It is so filled with self-absorption that you can’t help but feel even more sorry for the bad girl. That is literally in the last 10 pages of the book. Everything up until then is unsuspenseful and boring. The ending was uneventful and a big let down. It is almost impossible for me to stop reading a book I’ve started because I only read things that have mostly good reviews so I’m always waiting for the book to get good. This book completely failed to ever get good. I do not recommend this book and I’m very confused by anyone who would...
As with every Abbott book I've read, this has at the core an interesting relationship between two women. Abbott's books are only nominally mysteries, they tend to be about the culture of women in whatever field she happens to be writing about. In this one, it's science and as always, she's really good at creating the surrounding environment in believable detail. That said, there's something a little flat and inevitable about where this book goes; Diane, who is the friend and rival of the main character Kit never fully comes to life and by the end, it all feels a bit pre-programmed. That said, it was still a fun read simply because Abbott is such a good, smart writer.
This book is supposed to be a thriller? It was disjointed and unbelievably dull. The descriptions of lab work were so tedious I started skipping whole pages in hopes of finding some action. The characters felt forced, as if they were supposed to be interesting but just weren’t. About 50 pages in I gave up and skimmed through the rest so I could learn Diane’s big secret. It’s not that shocking. Save your money unless you need help falling asleep. This book will do it!
As a woman chemist for 45 years, I looked forward to GIVE ME YOUR HAND. What great potential existed in a story of two female postdocs competing within a group of men for two positions on a groundbreaking research project led by the esteemed Dr. Severin, also a woman! And a mystery story, too!

Kit Owens and Diane Fleming meet in high school. Both exceptional students, they are inspired when the elegant Dr. Severin addresses their school about the wonders of scientific research. Despite socioeconomic and personality differences, Kit and Diane become study buddies, spending many evenings at Kit’s humble home poring over science homework. Kit is described as the more typical teenager who favors cutoffs and tee shirts, while Diane wears prairie skirts and blouses with high neck collars. When Diane begins to share a dark secret with Kit, I assumed it was of a sexual nature. Unless I missed it, the author never explained Diane’s bizarre choice of clothing.

The secret IS the story. Kit carries the burden with her even as she achieves the first rung of her prize. She postdocs for Dr. Severin with a group of male chemists. To her shock and dismay, Dr. Severin brings her now-nemesis, Diane, into the group soon before the prestigious project will be staffed.

As I learn more details of Diane’s secret, I remembered a television program, FORENSIC FILES, that told the same story a few years ago. A quick Google search turned up the story of Marie Robards, a Fort Worth high school student who shared the identical secret with her friend that Diane told Kit. Even stranger is an identical English class on Hamlet that plays into the secret. Stranger yet, the dialogue I found between Marie and her friend detailed in TEXAS MONTHLY was also identical to the words exchanged between Kit and Diane. I then assumed that GIVE ME YOUR HAND was a fictionalization of the Marie Robards story.

As the Kit, Diane and Dr. Severin story slowly progresses, it bears no resemblance to the Marie Robards story, but I began to lose interest. I have no idea why Ms. Abbot used minute details of the Marie Robards story (which might have been more interesting than this book), but after comparing the actual dialogue to the words exchanged between Kit and Diane, I was more than confused, especially when I found no attribution.

The description of life as a chemistry postdoc was accurate, but Ms. Abbot should have minimized the narrative about the actual lab work. Most of it is superfluous, and a key part of the story is flat wrong. The competition among the postdocs for the research slots is spot on. The chemists who have toiled for years, barely scraping by financially, know that careers are predicated by prime research positions, and the competition is cutthroat.

I was disappointed by a book that held much promise. The story began to drag, and the ending was predictable. I expected more.