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while i was gone
riveting ... while i was gone celebrates what is impulsive in human nature . br the new york times br miller weaves her themes of secrecy betrayal and forgiveness into a narrative that shines . br time p 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 . p while i was gone swoops gracefully between the past and the present between a womans complex feelings about her husband and her equally complex fantasies and fears about another man ... . miller writes well about the trials of faith . br the new york times book review br quietly gripping ... jo shines steadily as the flawed and thoroughly modern heroine . as in her 1986 novel the good mother miller shows how impulses can fracture the family . br usa today br marvelous ... poignant ... powerful . br seattle times post intelligencer
paperback ballantine 2000 isbn 0345443284
average customer rating 4 isbn 13 9780345443281 number of pages 304 publisher random house inc release date 959299200000 series title ballantine readers circle