The Operator - Gretchen Berg

Fiction

Rating: 7.5/10

What if you could listen in on any phone conversation in town?  Would you do it? This book delivers a vivid look inside the hearts and minds of the 1950’s housewife.  All the while poking fun at the absurdities of the time.

A nosy switchboard operator overhears gossip related to her own family that sets in motion an unraveling of multiple lives.

Brimming with jealousy, infidelity, pettiness, secrets and lies…The Operator is simply an irresistible dose of fun. And don’t expect everything to be prim and proper, there is plenty of snarky edge and roiling rage among these characters.

A couple of key life lessons illustrated in this book…what goes around, comes around and karma’s a bitch!

Footnote: Could you imagine if you had to wait to be manually connected to someone you were calling?  The days of virtually no level of instant gratification were only 60ish years ago!!