The Ghost at the Table
A Fiction, Contemporary book. In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can...
Strikingly different since childhood and leading very dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have nevertheless managed to remain "devoted"—so long as they stay on opposite coasts. But with the reappearance of their elderly, long-estranged father they find themselves reunited for a cold, snowy Thanksgiving week—a reunion that awakens sleeping tensions and old sorrows. Frances envisions a happy family holiday with her husband and daughters in her lovely old New England farmhouse. Cynthia, a writer of historical fiction, doesn't understand how Frances can ignore the past their father's presence revives, a past that includes suspicions about their mother's death twenty-five years earlier. Adding to her uneasiness is her research for a book on Mark Twain's daughters, whose...
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- Pages: 304 pages
- ISBN: 9781565123342 / 1565123344
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In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained. Suzanne Berne, The Ghost at the Table
I read a few other reviews of this book and am glad to find that I am not the only one feeling unfulfilled from this book. I thought it had a great storyline and I was entertained with the difference emotions of the two sisters. But I finished the book not getting the point from either of them. The author also left a lot of things that... The Ghost at the Table..By Suzanne Berne.. Family dynamics was the theme of thie book. It was very well written; making the characters like someone a person might know personally. Sisters can be very different and see the same event in different ways. Cynthia, estranged from her father and Frances wanting a family get together at Thanksgiving.... Not your typical family Thanksgiving. Cynthia has purposely distanced herself from her remaining family, moving all the way to California while they remain in New England. She's refused repeated invitations to come home for Thanksgiving, preferring to visit only in the summers when everyone can be out of doors. Her sister, Frances,...
