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Host Family ReviewIn the early part of the 20th Century, Virginia Wolfe wrote in "A Room of One's Own" that women needed to kill the Angel in the house. She was referring to a woman's propensity to care for family members at the expense of herself--and in Wolfe's case--sacrifice her writing.
Although middle class women don't have a lock on being the "Angel" in the house, they are the audience Wolfe was speaking to -- educated women who might want to do something with their lives other than be the chief cook and bottle washer in charge of maintenance and repair.
Daisy Lewis eventually learns how to take care of herself, but she certainly takes her time getting there. When Daisy isn't handling complaints at the supermarket where she works as ombudsman ("Why not ombudswoman?" asks her friend), she's organizing food banks, washing her college son's dirty laundry, cleaning up her husband's vomit and other excrescences, or hosting foreign students for Harvard.
On one level, the book title refers the family that hosts foreign students, but on another level, it refers to the "hosts" that attract parasites and viruses--organic and manmade. Daisy's ex-husband Henri (nee Henry) is a computer virus expert and a bit of a parasite himself. Daisy's new beau is a parasitologist who isn't a parasite but he brings them home.
I found the book entertaining, and read it in two sittings. I laughed out loud once, but the text is amusing and others may laugh more. I love wordsmithing, and was most entertained by Medwed's command of English (English majors should love this book). Her wordplay is as graceful as a trapeze act. A familiarity with literature, world affairs, and internatinal cuisine will probably make many of the book's wry comments and asides more understandable.Host Family Overview

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