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| Year: | | Series: | Rating:    | | Rank: 112 | | This Week's Rank: 521 | | On 77 shelves |
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Description/Synopsis: In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another. Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy -- the effects of which not only divide Leigh’s family, but polarize the entire community. We see the story from Leigh’s perspective, as she grapples with the hard reality of what her daughter has done and the devastating consequences her actions have on the family of another teenage girl in town, all while struggling to protect Kara in the face of rising public outcry. Like the best works of Jane Hamilton, Jodi Picoult, and Alice Sebold, Laura Moriarty’s The Rest of Her Life is a novel of complex moral dilemma, filled with nuanced characters and a page-turning plot that makes readers ask themselves, 'What would I do?' |
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| I really enjoyed this book, I having children of my own 2 of which are drivers, found it heartwrenching to be in Kara's shoes....Most people worry about something terrible happening to their child, but rarely do we think of having to stand up for our child even through their mistakes. Reading this felt like being dropped in the middle of a tornado of hurt. The decisions that Kara made when she was allowed to, were very grown up, I thought. The only thing I found a bit boring was that the outcome of the whole situation was very predictable. I'm glad there was a happy ending.....This book makes you thankful for the "little" things that our children go through......It could always be much worse!!! Review By terinco3 |
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