What we keep

Zusatztext "Berg knows the hearts of her characters intimately! showing them with compassion! humor! and an illuminating generosity." --The Seattle Times "PICK UP ELIZABETH BERG'S WHAT WE KEEP! A SMALL BOOK WITH A HUGE HEART." --New York Newsday "BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN . . . 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. . . . [Ginny Young] crosses the country for a reluctant reunion with the mother she has not seen in 35 years. During the long hours of her flight! she returns in memory to the summer when she turned 12 and her family turned inside out. . . . Berg's tender depiction of a young girl's view of the world is uncanny and gives this story its heart. She captures perfectly what it was like to grow up in the '50s! presenting it like a long-forgotten! but still sharp photograph. . . . What We Keep will touch you. It will allow you! for a few hours! to see the world through the eyes of a 12-year-old and feel in your adult heart the stubborn endurance of love." --USA Today "BERG'S FIFTH NOVEL IS ONE OF HER MOST COMPELLING. . . . Berg limns the character with such vivid detail! and such honesty! that reading the book is like having an intimate conversation with a friend who is baring her soul. . . . An excellent book to savor and pass on to a mother! a sister! or a close friend." --Charleston Post and Courier “COMPELLING . . . Berg limns the character with such vivid detail! and such honesty! that reading the book is like having an intimate conversation with a friend who is baring her soul. . . . An excellent book to savor and pass on to a mother! a sister! or a close friend.” —Charleston Post and Courier Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Berg Klappentext Do you ever really know your mother, your daughter, the people in your family? In this rich and rewarding new novel by the beloved bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon, a reunion between two sisters and their mother reveals how the secrets and complexities of the past have shaped the lives of the women in a family. Ginny Young is on a plane, en route to see her mother, whom she hasn't seen or spoken to for thirty-five years. She thinks back to the summer of 1958, when she and her sister, Sharla, were young girls. At that time,a series of dramatic events--beginning with the arrival of a mysterious and sensual next-door neighbor--divided the family, separating the sisters from their mother. Moving back and forth in time between the girl she once was and the woman she's become, Ginny at last confronts painful choices that occur in almost any woman's life, and learns surprising truths about the people she thought she knew best. Emotional honesty and a true understanding of people and relationships are combined in this moving and deeply satisfying new book by the novelist who "writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, love and hope. And the transcendence that redeems" (Andre Dubus).Outside the airplane window the clouds are thick and rippled, unbroken as acres of land. They are suffused with peach-colored, early morning sun, gilded at the edges. Across the aisle, a man is taking a picture of them. Even the pilot couldn't keep still--"Folks," he just said, "we've got quite a sunrise out there. Might want to have a look." I like it when pilots make such comments. It lets me know they're awake. Whenever I see a sight like these clouds, I think maybe everyone is wrong; maybe you can walk on air. Maybe we should just try. Everything could have changed without our noticing. Laws of physics, I mean. Why not? I want it to be true that such miracles occur. I want to stop the plane, put the kickstand down, and have us all file out there, shrugging airline claustrophobia off our shoulders. I want us to be able to breathe easily th...

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Berg
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.1999
• EAN: 9780345423290
• ISBN: 978-0-345-42329-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 202 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle; Ballantine Reader's Circle
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature