The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
By Melanie Benjamin
At two foot eight inches Mercy
Lavinia Bump is the perfect miniature woman. She started out as a school
teacher then when she was seventeen she was approached to travel on a boat as a
performer, with this first taste of fame she would continue on to become an
icon during a time of great unrest. This is a fictional autobiography of the
woman who became Mrs. Tom Thumb half of the perfect miniature couple.
I almost didn’t make it through this book;
the author takes an interesting story and turns it into something dull and annoying.
I say annoying due to the fact that Melanie Benjamin turned Lavinia Bump into
an egotistical arrogant woman who thought every other little person, including
her husband and sister, to be less intelligent than she was. Then there is the
main dilemma of the novel which, with a quite glance at wikipedia you will find
out what it is, turns out to be absolutely ludicrous. To add to these issues is
the fact that Lavinia never loved Tom Thumb but actually P.T. Barnum and never
even consummated her wedding, I find this entirely too hard to believe. Melanie
Benjamin may be a good writer but this story turned out to be rubbish, and what
was with the rant about the polygamist Mormons? Skip it and try google.
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