While I Was Gone

by Sue Miller | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0345420748 Global Overview for this book
Registered by editorgrrl of New Haven, Connecticut USA on 7/11/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by editorgrrl from New Haven, Connecticut USA on Monday, July 11, 2005
Mass-market paperback from the free book bank run by New Haven Reads. This was an Oprah's Book Club selection in May 2000. Made into a TV-movie in 2004 starring Kirstie Alley.

From the publisher
In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped -- for one beautiful, idyllic year -- into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor. Now Jo has everything she's ever wanted: a veterinary practice she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, a beautiful Massachusetts farmhouse. And if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself and wonders what happened to the freedom she once felt, or how she came to be the wife, mother, and doctor her neighbors know and trust -- if at times she feels as if her whole life is vanishing behind her as she's living it -- she need only look at her daughters or her husband, Daniel, to recall the satisfactions of family and community and marriage. But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel: seduced again by the enticing possibility of another self and another life, she begins a dangerous flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves.

Synopsis
Ten years after memorably exploring the boundaries between motherhood and sexuality in her bestselling novel The Good Mother, Sue Miller returns with a new novel of love, betrayal, and forgiveness that asks what it means to be a good wife. In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker's youthful innocence was shattered when she found her best friend brutally murdered in the communal house they shared in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now, 30 years later, Jo has everything she ever wanted: a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, and three grown daughters. But when Eli Mayhew -- a former housemate from her bohemian days -- settles in her small town, Jo is gradually drawn into a flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves.

Released 18 yrs ago (7/29/2005 UTC) at Allyn Brook Park (See Release Notes For Details) in Durham, Connecticut USA

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