While I Was Gone
A Womens Fiction, Chick Lit, Fiction book. It seems we need someone to know us as we...
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.“Riveting . . . While I Was Gone [celebrates] what is impulsive in human nature.”–The New York Times“Miller weaves her themes of secrecy, betrayal, and forgiveness into a narrative that shines.”–Time“[While I Was Gone] swoops gracefully between the past and the present, between a woman’s complex feelings about her husband and her equally complex fantasies–and fears–about another man. . . . [Miller writes] well about the trials of faith.”–The New York Times Book Review“Quietly gripping ....
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- Pages: 304 pages
- ISBN: 9780345443281 / 345443284
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...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them. Sue Miller, While I Was Gone And what if wed been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if wed been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasnt the secretthe secret that wasnt a secret anywaythat led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies. Sue Miller, While I Was Gone And then heard Detective Ryans pleased voice talking about Eli, about killers whove gone free: They have to tell, hed saidWell, apparently so.But why? What is it that comes from the telling?Some of it must be relief, of course. A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.It seems as we need someone to know us as we arewith all we have doneand forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someones sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
Thirty years ago, bored by the prospect of her future in a safe marriage, Jo ran away and spent a few months in a communal house in Boston, enjoying the hippy lifestyle while keeping herself distanced from it. That all fell apart when she came home one night to find Dana, the commune's earthmother figure, brutally murdered by, it seems,... I expect every Oprah's book club pick to get 3 stars (unless the book's by Toni Morrison). While I Was Gone is that special breed of book that plummeted to 2- and 1-star territory after chapter 10.The novel started out well enough. I empathized with Jo, the main character, as she looked back on running away from an unsatisfying relationship.... The seven college students came from all different walks of life. Jo, Eli, Dana, Duncan, Sara, John, and Larry may have met completely by chance, but their differences were what initially bonded them together in friendship. They did almost everything together - and were extremely close with each other - until a brutal crime tore everyone...
