
Ann Packer’s debut novel, The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, was a nationwide bestseller that established her as one of our most gifted chroniclers of the interior lives of women. Now, in her long-awaited second novel, she takes us on a journey into a lifelong friendship pushed to the breaking point.Liz and Sarabeth were childhood neighbors in the suburbs of northern California, brought as close as sis...
Series: Random House Large Print
Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print (September 4, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0739327674
ISBN-13: 978-0739327678
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 13606491
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This was a very complicated story of love and family, showing that true family can transcend biological connections, and biological connections do not always guarantee family love, whoever is in the circle of a particular configuration of "family" mu...
suicide of Sarabeth’s mother when the girls were just sixteen. In the decades that followed–through Liz’s marriage and the birth of her children, through Sarabeth’s attempts to make a happy life for herself despite the shadow cast by her mother’s act–their relationship remained a source of continuity and strength. But when Liz’s adolescent daughter enters dangerous waters that threaten to engulf the family, the fault lines in the women’s friendship are revealed, and both Liz and Sarabeth are forced to reexamine their most deeply held beliefs about their connection. Songs Without Words is about the sometimes confining roles we take on in our closest relationships, about the familial myths that shape us both as children and as parents, and about the limits–and the power–of the friendships we create when we are young.