Title: Gone
Author: Cathi Hanauer
Review: Wow,
wow, wow, wow, I don’t even know how to tell you that I loved this book. It was fantastic, I wanted to keep reading
but I didn’t want it to end either. The
closer I got to the end the slower I started to read, I wanted to know what
would happen but I also knew that with this sort of book that the ending would
really only be another beginning. I saw
myself in these pages and it was fascinating and really made me double take often. Was this book about me? Well NO, but WOW…..or did I say that already? I hope this is expressing how much I enjoyed this book. 5 Stars +.
The struggle in this
book for me was who to hate, and who to cheer for or against. I wanted to hate Eric and then I wanted to
hug him. Whose side should I take? That is the problem with couple relationships
especially in a divorce situation…who do you get to keep in the divorce of your
good friends? What a pain that you can’t
keep them both. Well this book is
wonderful, thought provoking, well written, amazing and WOW. You need to read this book if you are
married, or in a long term relationship, or thinking of being in either in the
future. This book will open your eyes and
let you know- you are not the only one in how you feel alone in a room full of people
you know. You are worried about you and everyone else is worried about themselves and who can you talk to?
Read this book
especially if it is the only one you read this month. I am still thinking about Eve and Eric and I
finished this book a week ago.
Kids, work, church, friends, enemies, spouses, family members and every other
thing in your life that pulls your attention is in this book. How do you decide what is the most important
and what you can let go? That is the
question for the ages and I have no answers for you. Read this book and see yourself and how maybe
you can figure out what is truly important before it is gone….for good.
Publisher: Published June 19th 2012 by Atria Books
ISBN: 9781451626414
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 368
Quick Review: 5 stars (out of 5)
Why I Read It:
Sent by the publisher for review.
Synopsis: From the editor of the New York Times
bestselling essay anthology The Bitch in the House and the novel Sweet Ruin
comes a compelling domestic drama about a woman who must hold her family
together after her husband disappears.It is every woman’s nightmare—or fondest
dream. Her husband leaves to drive the babysitter home and doesn’t return. Thus
begins Gone, Cathi Hanauer’s sexy, tension-filled new novel. For the past fourteen years, Eve Adams has
worked part-time while raising her two children and emotionally supporting her
sculptor husband, Eric, through his early fame and success. Now, at forty-two, she
suddenly finds herself with a growing career of her own—even as Eric’s career
sinks deeper into the slump it slipped into a few years ago. After a dinner at a local restaurant to
celebrate Eve’s success, Eric drives the babysitter home and, simply, doesn’t
come back. Eve must now shift the family in possibly irreparable ways, forcing
her to realize that competence in one area of life doesn’t always keep things
from unraveling in another. Gone is a
novel about change and about redefining, in middle age, everything from one’s
marriage to one’s career to one’s role as a best friend, parent, and spouse. It
is a novel about passion and forgiveness and knowing when to let something go
and when to fight to hold onto it; about learning to say goodbye—but, if you’re
lucky, not forever.
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