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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-MP3, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: May 2001
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 272
Synopsis
Struggling to come to terms with her husband's abandonment, Samantha sets out to construct a new life for herself and her eleven-year-old son and to rediscover her own identity, which had been lost in her attempts to save her marriage.
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Reviews
Did not want this book to end; after the last page, wanted to know, 'then what happens.' Elizabeth Berg has a way of making her characters seem like folks from your own life, maybe even you. If contemporary fiction is your thing, if you enjoy real characters going about the day-to-day stuff we all go through (rife with tears AND laughter) you owe it to yourself to give Berg a read.