âRiveting . . . While I Was Gone [celebrates] what is impulsive in human nature.â
âThe New York Times
âMiller weaves her themes of secrecy, betrayal, and forgiveness into a narrative that shines.â
âTime
Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a rewarding career. But she feels a sense of unease. Then an old housemate reappears, sending Jo back to a distant past when she lived in a communal house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Drawn deeper into her memories of that fateful summer in 1968, Jo begins to obsess about the person she once was. As she is pulled farther from her present life, her husband, and her world, Jo struggles against becoming enveloped by her past and its dark secret.
â[While I Was Gone] swoops gracefully between the past and the present, between a womanâs complex feelings about her husband and her equally complex fantasiesâand fearsâabout another man. . . . [Miller writes] well about the trials of faith.â
âThe New York Times Book Review
âQuietly gripping . . . Jo shines steadily as the flawed and thoroughly modern heroine. As in her 1986 novel, The Good Mother, Miller shows how impulses can fracture the family.â
âUSA Today
âMarvelous . . . poignant . . . powerful.â
âSeattle Times/Post Intelligencer
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Literary
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Author : Miller, Sue
Language : English
Edition : First Thus 9th Printing
Published :2000-05-12
Number Of Pages : 304
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0345443284
ISBN-13 : 9780345443281
Item weight : 0.6 lb
Dimensions : 0.8 in x 5.1 in x 7.9 in
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