What We Keep
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (630 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004EBT5HA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 373 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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During the long hours of her flight, she returns in memory to the summer when she turned 12 and her family turned inside out. What We Keep is about ties that are buried but not broken, wounds that are dressed but never heal, and love that changes form but somehow survives.”–USA Today“COMPELLING Reading this book is like having an intimate conversation with a friend who is baring her soul.”–Charleston Post and Courier“TOUCHING WHAT WE KEEP IS SOMETHING OF VALUE.”–San Antonio Express-News. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Elizabeth Berg's Once Upon a Time, There Was You.“BERG KNOWS THE HEARTS OF HER CHARACTERS INTIMATELY, showing them with compassion, humor, and an illuminating generosity.”–The Seattle Times “BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN Ginny Young crosses the country for a reluctant reunion with the mother she has not seen in 35 years
A Tale of Mothers and Daughters! Nancy R. Katz As a daughter and mother of a daughter, I am always intrigued by the thought of a book which explores the nuances of these relationships. But if I was looking for a sweet read depicting mother knows best and daughter is listeneing, I should have read something else. For in What we Keep, the author relates the story of a mother and her two daughters in an overwhelmingly sad story.The opening pages of this book begin on an airplane ride as Ginny, Marion's younger daughter and sister of Sharla, explain. A Story of a mother-daughter relationship Ratmammy WHAT WE KEEP was the story of a woman (Ginny Young ) who is about to meet her mother for the first time after being apart for 35 years. During the flight to California, she remembers the events that lead up to her mother's departure. Ginny was 12 years old when she last sees her mother, and we see the events through Ginny's 12 year old eyes. And although the 12 year old Ginny does not fully understand why things happened the way they did, the reader will note things that the young inexperienced Ginn. "Berg's books are a rare treat" according to Avid Reader. Berg's books are a rare treat, literature to savor and ponder. I have read all of her books to date and have not been disappointed yet - I share them with all my reading family and buddies.In her latest book I really appreciated the portrait of a mom in the 60's not able to fit into the expected role as so many women in those days did not and many of them who did not run away from their family as the mother in this story, probably should have - they and their families would have been better off in t
. She's not a good person." So declares Ginny Young on a trip to California to visit her mother, Marion, whom she hasn't seen in 35 years. The following years bring occasional visits that are impossibly painful for all concerned and so full of buried anger that the girls decide to curtail them altogether. BOMC selection; author tour. The reader, in fact, may feel there is less here than meets the eye: Marion's flight is never made psychologically credible. Then she walks out with no explanations, returning briefly a few months later to explain that she's not coming back. In flashbac