Excellent story of two women learning to cope with losses and grief. Vivian is the obituary writer- a profession that she turns to after the great earthquake in San Francisco and the loss of her beloved, David. Alternately, Claire is a young mother and wife, pregnant and feeling trapped by a husb...
My only disappointment in this book is that I picked it up immediately following the completion of reading her book "The Knitting Circle". I was so touched by "The Knitting Circle" that I blindly picked up another Ann Hood book from the library. I was a little disappointed to find that our main c...
Le he dado cuatro estrellas por que me ha gustado mucho como esta reflejado en las familias todo lo que gira alrededor de la búsqueda de un bebé; la esperanza, la ilusión, el dolor, el miedo. El libro me ha enganchado tanto por la diversidad de sus personajes y sus vidas, tan diferentes y con el ...
Although I hoped to enjoy the story line of this book, I ended up being very disappointed. I work in the adoption field and fear that readers get a very wrong idea about what it's like to pursue an international adoption. The points I would like to make about this book are:~ families are never ...
Author Ann Hood learned to knit when she was grieving the death of her young daughter, and has been a knitter ever since. Here she has gathered accounts by several fellow authors about their experiences with knitting. Along with the pleasure of fashioning something lovely and useable, many acco...
Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine by Ann Hood3 women who grew up in the late 60's their children are now of age in the 80's.Starts off with Sparrow (Susan) and her mother Susanne who is constantly asking about her real father, pictures, lifestyle etc.Rebecca has no friends and she thinks it's beca...
Oh, how I wanted to like this. Coming from a large Sicilian family second generation, I looked forward to such a story as the blurb on the book described - a multi generational tale about Josephine Rimaldi, who married at fourteen in the old country, came to America, had children, and her life - ...
Every once in a great while, I stumble on a book that I was not only meant to read, but I was also meant to read it right that moment. And our meeting up seems so haphazard and coincidental.I bemoaned around the start of the new year that I had nothing to read in my to be read pile. And so I spen...