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While I Was Gone (Oprah's Book Club #34)

While I Was Gone (Oprah's Book Club #34)

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    Jo Becker, a happily married middle-aged woman, finds virtually every aspect of her stability threatened when an old friend named Eli Mayhew comes to town. Eli reminds Jo of her life as a counterculture free spirit in the'60s, when the murder of ...
 
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    Jo Becker, a happily married middle-aged woman, finds virtually every aspect of her stability threatened when an old friend named Eli Mayhew comes to town. Eli reminds Jo of her life as a counterculture free spirit in the'60s, when the murder of her best friend--still unsolved--shattered Jo's life. Now, 30 years later, Jo finds that old issues remain, and she must make decisions that will affect not only herself but her family.
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    • While I Was Gone

      I thought this was a wonderful book addressing issues of middle age. As I read about the feelings and emotions of Jo, I identified with them. I think any women who was grew up in the 60's will have gone through similar experiences and feelings and will be able to explore them with Jo and maybe also have a cathartic breakthrough in coming to terms with life as it was for them and now is. As a middle aged woman myself I was able to forgive myself as Jo had to do and just go on with life. We can't change the past we can only embrace it and accept it as it was and forgive.

      sueryan from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Jun 19, 2010

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      I've liked almost every one of Oprah's Book Club books with exception of a very few. This is another good one. Still reading it but would definitely recommend it.

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    • a very good read

      I loved this book from cover to cover so much character in this wonder book

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      I cannot say I loved this book, but it was a good read. I had a hard time reconciling a woman married to a minister and would not go to his sermans and did not consult him on important issues. It seems that she was not gone for a short time, but gone all her life and didn't seem to connect with the important people in her life. I guess there are people with this outlook, but I am happy I don't know any. I would recommend it to my friends, but I would not reread it.

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      if you want to read some great stories; WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, SARA'S KEY AND THE HELP. THESE ARE BOOKS I HAVE TO SLOW MYSELF DOWN ON BECAUSE THEY ARE SO ENJOYABLE I DO NOT THE EXPERIENCE TO END!!!!

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  • Starred ReviewThe shadowy and inexorable nemesis of past secrets to a reclaimed life, and the inability even of those who are intimates to really know one another, are poignant themes in Miller's resonant fifth novel. Narrator Jo Becker, now a veterinarian married to a minister in a small Massachusetts town, was once a runaway bride who assumed a false name and lived with other dissaffected '60s bohemians in a group house in Cambridge. Her special friend in the house was sweet-spirited and generous Dana Jablonski, whose shockingand unsolvedmurder broke up the group and left Jo with unresolved questions about her own identity. She manages to ignore the memories of that time until, almost three decades later, one of the former housemates, Eli Mayhew, moves to her town. Eli, now a distinguished research scientist, provides a revelation that acts as the catalyst provoking Jo to face her guilt about her past behaviorand to act impulsively once again. Her moral conundrum occasions a heartrending change in her heretofore strong marriage and undermines her relationship with her three grown daughters. As usual, Miller (The Good Mother; Family Pictures) renders the details of quotidian domesticity with bedrock veracity and a sensitivity to minute calibrations of family dynamics, especially the nuances of sibling rivalry. But while the pacing, tone and measured exposition are handled with masterly skill, the way in which Jo's decision to make amends for her past rebounds on her present life seems staged and convoluted, since her husband and children seem to think that retribution for a murder should take second place to their own emotional needs. That cavil aside, Miller's narrative is a beautifully textured picture of the psychological tug of war between finding integrity as an individual and satisfying the demands of spouse, children and community. 150,000 first printing; Random House audio; BOMC selection; author tour. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
 
 
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