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Pam Of Babylon (2011)

by Suzanne Jenkins(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1461135923 (ISBN13: 9781461135920)

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English

genre

Romance

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Createspace

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Pam of Babylon

review 1: When a book starts from a seemingly perfect place for the character, you know he is not going to stay there long… So when Jack Smith is looking at the face of Sandra, his mistress, thinking “I am the luckiest man alive,” his luck is at its end. Not only would Marie, his wife’s sister, find out about his affair, but he would to live long enough to try to handle the scandal with Pam, his meek, trusting wife.While he is cheating on her, Pam waits excitedly for his return. “She had the week to prepare for his homecoming… she tried to make it an oasis for him.” Despite her trust in Jack, she knows intuitively that things between them are not quite right. “There was a tiny, itsy bit of doubt, a niggling worry, an insecurity in the back of her mind. He was disconn... moreected from her.”When she gets a call from the hospital that Jack has died from a heart attack, Pam goes to pieces and then, gradually, reassembles them, finding a new strength in herself. She now learns the truth about him and a few of the women with whom he betrayed her. Sandra, too, goes through grief: “Her life had changed overnight.”This book is about looking forward to restart life already, even in the presence of death. It is about healing, part of which comes from forgiveness. I know this sounds strange to some readers, who find Pam’s behavior ’too unreal.” Apparently it is easier and perhaps more natural for many of us to succumb to vengefulness. At the same time, this is exactly why this book is so fascinating. It offers a different possibility, a more hopeful one. “There was something about cleaning up, washing everything, that spoke of new beginnings.”The author, Suzanne Jenkins, stated that she wrote the character as the opposite of herself. “I am at the opposite end of the spectrum of reactions....I wouldn't be forgiving and embracing.” Yet I feel that by the end of the story Pam inhabits her to such a degree that her words come straight from the heart, gut, and mind.Five stars.
review 2: To be honest I bought this because I'd downloaded Don't You Forget About Me the second book free and I was intrigued I don't honestly think it's a book I would normally have gone for since I read for pleasure and like happy endings and romantic tales and this didn't give a guarantee of either but I found the book amazing. While Pam awaits her husbands return from work he has a heart attack and dies, what follows is the incredible story of his life, through this and the following books we learn about Jacks past, we discover the kind of person he really was and the destruction he's left behind and anyone who knew him is left wondering if they really knew him at all.The only warning I'll give is that before buying this book be prepared to buy the series because once you start on this journey you'll have to see it through to the end. less

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