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Home safe: a novel

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Berg

Book ID
100577132
Publisher
Random House
Year
2009
Tongue
en-US
Weight
136 KB
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
1588368521

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✦ Synopsis

Helen Ames--recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her--is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen's problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen's husband before he died. In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she had anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.

✦ Subjects

Parent and adult child -- Fiction

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