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'You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone.'

When Samantha Morrow's husband leaves her and her eleven-year-old son she is faced with the terrifying prospect of having to recreate her whole life. After a few faltering steps she starts to put the pieces into place. She opens her house to a series of lodgers who each in their eccentric way help her to see herself. She fends of her mother, whose idea of getting over a failed marriage is to get a pedicure and get out there dating. And she makes a friend, King, an MIT graduate turned handyman, who shows her that she has the ability to make her own future and her own happiness...

Fairly disappointing. I thought the character sketches inadequate, the serious bits too superficial & the funny bits too serious. There's no depth & I couldn't begin to care much for any of the characters. I expected more, but it does confirm my opinion of Oprah's Book Club recommendations.

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Mooched by katndom.

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