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Where You Left Me (2011)

by Jennifer Gardner Trulson(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1451621426 (ISBN13: 9781451621426)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Gallery Books

review 1: They say you can't judge a book by it's cover. Wrong. I chose this book solely by its cover and knew it would be a story that grabbed my heart. This is for anyone who has ever lost someone they love, or someone who fears losing someone they love, or someone who remembers September 11th, or just someone, anyone. If it were a novel, it would probably be cheesy and cliche, but it's not; it's one woman's real story of tremendous, earth-shattering loss, and ultimate redemptive ending. I devoured this story, and cried throughout. Where You Left Me hits the spot when you're looking for a book that covers the highest of highs, the lowest of lows, and leaves you with hope for the future. My only gripe with the book was the author's failure to acknowledge the elephant in the ... moreroom -- her incredible privilege. As someone who has experienced deep losses, I could not identify with her wealthy, not needing to work, Central Park West/Hamptons/kids in private school lifestyle. I wish she would have acknowledged that despite her tragic loss, the external circumstances that she found herself in were pretty damn good, all things considered. I wouldn't have expected her to see this in the immediate aftermath, or even in the few years that followed, but I wish she would have recognized it in retrospect.
review 2: I liked this book more than Unmeasured Strength. (Both books are about someone affected by 9/11.) Her life (before and after 9/11) is so different from mine that I found it interesting to have a glimpse of a Jewish family's life choices in New York City. She and her second husband do not wait for marriage to live together; it was a bit fascinating reading her justifications for this. She tells well the anguish a wife feels whose husband is killed unexpectedly - in other words not from a known illness. less

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