While I Was Gone
ISBN:
9780747584612 (0747584613)
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
The story of a woman who can't fully reveal herself to those close to her and how that affects her marriage and her kids. The best part of the book is her memories of living in house of other college-age people during the 60s. The result of that time in her life is that she can never quite connect f...
This book was in places very beautifully written but for all of that I found the heroine and the choices she made quite selfish. Here's a woman with a loving husband, a prosperous career she loves and not a worry in the world. She's willing to toss it all away because, to me, she seems either bored ...