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Jan 1, 1999 · Sue Miller. Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a rewarding career. But she feels a sense of unease. Then an old housemate reappears, sending Jo back to a distant past when she lived in a communal house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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May 12, 2000 · “[While I Was Gone] swoops gracefully between the past and the present, between a woman’s complex feelings about her husband and her equally complex fantasies–and fears–about another man. . . .
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While I Was Gone is a 1999 novel by Sue Miller. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in May 2000. [1] Background. Miller conceived of While I Was Gone while in the middle of writing a memoir of her father's battle with Alzheimer's disease.
- Sue Miller
- 1999
Aug 26, 2008 · While I Was Gone. by Sue Miller. Announced May 26, 2000. About the Book. A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal best-seller The Good Mother. Now, Sue Miller delivers a spellbinding novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife.
In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped--for one beautiful, idyllic year--into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge.
May 12, 2000 · But no one need find forgiveness for Miller's latest novel, While I Was Gone, which is the author's best effort in years. The story centers on Jo Becker, preacher's wife, mother, and veterinarian in a small town in western Massachusetts.
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As she is pulled farther from her present life, her husband, and her world, Jo struggles against becoming enveloped by her past and its dark secret.“[While I Was Gone] swoops gracefully between...
