
There are a lot of funny bits
in Surrender the Pink, the second novel Fisher wrote after the success of Postcards From the Edge. Dinah is smart, sarcastic, worldly, as well as sad. There
are some rather touching bits, as well, and I could help but not feel somewhat
connected to the character and the writer. I was also sort of stunned by an
exchange about women’s roles in society, and realize more so, that in the near
28 years since this book was released, nothing much has changed. I can see why
Carrie Fisher like gay men –they treated her with the respect and love she
needed.
This book, also, is long rumored
to be loosely based on Fisher’s relationship and short marriage to singer Paul
Simon. If it is, both come off fairly evenly here; Fisher does not seem to have
too much of an ax to grind. It does highlight, though, what a wonderful, witty woman Fisher was and what we lost when she so unexpectedly left us in 2016.
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