While I Was Gone
About This Book
On the surface, Jo Becker's life is a full one. She has a steady marriage, three lively daughters and work she finds meaningful. Still, something nags at her, a restlessness she can't quite name. It sharpens when a former housemate unexpectedly turns up and pulls her back to the summer of 1968, when she lived in a communal house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Once the memories start, Jo can't put them down. She becomes preoccupied with the young woman she used to be and with a secret from that summer that has stayed buried ever since. The more she dwells on it, the further she drifts from her husband and the everyday world she has built, and she has to decide how much of the past she can revisit before it takes over her present. Sue Miller moves between then and now in this quiet, tense novel about marriage, temptation, faith and the impulses that can strain even a loving family. It is a book about how the choices of our younger selves stay with us, and what happens when they come back.
ISBN: 9780345443281
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