Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I'm rating this one about 3¾. I liked it a lot, but there were times when it really seemed to drag. I also got caught up in some of the inaccuracies. In her attempt to portray 'the 60s', it seemed that the author shifted the time line a bit so that everything in her story was happening 3-5 years before it really happened. One glaring example is when she talked about the girls being on the Michigan campus and the fashions there—bell bottom jeans and long hair. She set this in 1962, which was still pretty much the 50s and the tail-end of the beatnik era. Kennedy was still alive and the Beatles weren't really a thing yet. They were around, but the hadn't made their US tour and they certainly didn't look like hippies. Another example is the Vietnam War protests—she had them too early, during Kennedy's term. They didn't get going until after LBJ took office and escalated the war. There are other examples of facts she placed at the wrong time, or inconsistencies, and you can find some of those mentioned in other reviews.
That said, once I got into later parts of the book, the errors were't so glaring and the story moved along pretty quickly. I did enjoy the book.

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