Range of Motion

by Elizabeth Berg | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0552997161 Global Overview for this book
Registered by catsalive of Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on 9/9/2016
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Journal Entry 1 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Friday, September 9, 2016
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'I can tell you how it happened. It's easy to say how it happened. He walked past a building, and a huge chunk of ice fell off the roof, and it hit him in the head. This is Chaplinesque, right? People start to laugh when I tell them-'

As Jay Berman lies in a coma, his young wife, Lainey, is the only one who believes he will recover. When his doctors try to reach him, Jay does not respond. Yet Lainey believes he knows when she is there, and is stimulated by the gifts of ordinary life she brings him: sweet-smelling flowers, his children's drawings, his own softly textured shirt, spices from their kitchen.

As Lainey struggles to keep believing and to keep the family going, she goes deeper into herself, looking for solace, for strength, and for understanding. Overburdened, distracted, depressed yet determined, she feels desperate only at those times when her faith falters.

It is then that she is sustained by her friendships. Alice, her next-door neighbour, is strong when Lainey cannot be, though she has problems and fears of her own. And the spirit of Evie, a woman from the 1940s who used to live in Lainey's house, now takes up a kind of residence again, offering advice and philosophy from a simpler time.

Journal Entry 2 by catsalive at Laverton, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, September 15, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (9/15/2016 UTC) at Laverton, Western Australia Australia

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