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The hilarious opening of Almost does little to prepare either the reader or the narrator, Sophy Chase, for the drama of what is to come. Almost divorced, Sophy is in bed with her new lover an art dealer and father of four young children when the police call her with shocking news. Her almost ex-husband, Will, has died suddenly on the Massachusetts island where she left him just months before. Dazed and grief-stricken, Sophy takes off at once for Swansea Island, hurled back into a life and family her husband s grown twin daughters and their prickly mother she had intended to leave behind.
In the tension-filled days that follow, Sophy s past and present collide as she struggles to find out how her husband died, what role she might have had in the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend s ten-year-old daughter, and how she can maintain her equilibrium. The gulf between the island s summer people and its year-rounders is brought vividly to life in the process, as is the particular beauty of a setting that resembles Nantucket and Martha s Vineyard.
A story about starting over and looking back, about the pain of staying and the consequences of leaving, and about a woman s longing for children, Almost presses us to wonder how much responsibility we bear for other people s happiness and who exactly we are when we re in limbo. By this riveting novel s end, Sophy has it all figured out almost.
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In the tension-filled days that follow, Sophy s past and present collide as she struggles to find out how her husband died, what role she might have had in the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend s ten-year-old daughter, and how she can maintain her equilibrium. The gulf between the island s summer people and its year-rounders is brought vividly to life in the process, as is the particular beauty of a setting that resembles Nantucket and Martha s Vineyard.
A story about starting over and looking back, about the pain of staying and the consequences of leaving, and about a woman s longing for children, Almost presses us to wonder how much responsibility we bear for other people s happiness and who exactly we are when we re in limbo. By this riveting novel s end, Sophy has it all figured out almost.
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Elizabeth Benedict is the author of Almost, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year, a Newsweek Best Fiction Book of the Year, and a Best Book of the Year by National Public Radio’s Fresh Air. She is also the author of three other novels, as well as The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers. She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherMariner Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0618231617
- ISBN 13 9780618231614
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