Songs Without Words
Liz and Sarabeth were girlhood neighbors in the suburbs of Northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth's mother. In the decades that followed, their relationship remained a source of continuity and strength. But when Liz's adolescent daughter enters dangerous...
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Liz and Sarabeth were girlhood neighbors in the suburbs of Northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth's mother. In the decades that followed, their relationship remained a source of continuity and strength. But when Liz's adolescent daughter enters dangerous waters, the women's friendship takes a devastating turn, forcing Liz and Sarabeth to question their most deeply held beliefs about their connection. From the bestselling author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier, Songs Without Words is the gripping story of a lifelong friendship pushed to the breaking point.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375412813 (0375412816)
Publish date: September 4th 2007
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
I so much wanted to like this book. It takes place just a few miles from where I live, deals with daughters in high school, I was completely ready to fall in love with this book. But, I found the characters whiny and could not relate to the emotional swings or depression that swamped both the teen...
I went from strongly disliking this book to liking it and to eventually becoming indifferent.It was purposedly plotless and sometimes it worked but others times it didn't. First hundred pages got me wondering - will anything ever happen? As it turned out the first half of the book was building up to...
Two friends since schooldays. Sarabeth's mother had died by suicide while Sarabeth was in high school, and Sarabeth was unofficially adopted by I-can't-remember-her-name already's family. Fast forward -- now married to Brody and mother to teenage children Joe and ugh -- I can't remember her name eit...
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