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Literature.
HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ? ??A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory.? ??Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe
In this ??rich, complex family saga? (USA Today) full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest.
Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator turned stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she loves; and Grace, the dawdling youngest daughter, begins living a lie that no one in her family even suspects.
With the unexpected arrival of young Jonah Bendt??a child placed for adoption by one of the daughters fifteen years before??the Sorensons will be forced to reckon with the rich and varied tapestry of their past. As they grapple with years marred by adolescent angst, infidelity, and resentment, they also find the transcendent moments of joy that make eve… (meer)
4 zussen in verschillende stadia van hun leven worden in dit boek pakkend beschreven. Het begint allemaal met de oudste dochter Wendy die een jongen in het gezin Sorenson introduceert. Deze jongen, Jonah, blijkt de zoon te zijn van de tweede dochter, Violet. Jonah is 15, bijna 16, en zijn bestaan is altijd geheim gehouden door Violet en Wendy. De onderlinge verhoudingen komen behoorlijk onder druk te staan. Heel goed geschreven, met gevoel voor humor. ( )
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So he was left with the women, Violet and Liza and Wendy and Marilyn all staring at him like a horror-movie coven of unassuming kindergarten teachers who were about to disembowel him.
She'd given up so much and so little when she agreed to marry him, but he had been so fixated on having her that he had rarely stopped to consider what it would mean for her to allow herself to be had. This is how he saw it: getting her, winning. It wasn't fair. She deserved more.
Marriage, she had learned, was a strangely pleasurable power game, a careful balance of competing egos, conflicting moods. She could turn hers off in order to allow his to shine. Conservation. Reciprocity. She was allowed to feel confident and excited only when he was feeling anxious and pessimistic. If he worried about everything, she was allowed to worry about nothing.
And it was weird, she thought, feeling adult and aware, how a thing so terrible as losing someone could yield goodness in the ones who were left.
It wasn't always the most logical decision that was the right decision.
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Ze verschoof een stukje, strekte haar arm en pakte de hand van haar man in de hare.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ? ??A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory.? ??Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe
In this ??rich, complex family saga? (USA Today) full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest.
Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator turned stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she loves; and Grace, the dawdling youngest daughter, begins living a lie that no one in her family even suspects.
With the unexpected arrival of young Jonah Bendt??a child placed for adoption by one of the daughters fifteen years before??the Sorensons will be forced to reckon with the rich and varied tapestry of their past. As they grapple with years marred by adolescent angst, infidelity, and resentment, they also find the transcendent moments of joy that make eve
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Wanneer Marilyn Connolly en David Sorenson verliefd worden in de jaren zeventig, hebben ze nog geen idee van wat hun te wachten staat. Nu, bijna veertig jaar later met vier totaal verschillende volwassen dochters en dito levens is dat niet anders. Een geheim tussen twee zussen gooit het leven van alle gezinsleden volledig om.
In een wervelend verhaal dat een halve eeuw omspant, volgen we de Sorensons en hun leven. Van de glorieuze momenten en dieptepunten in de liefde, ouderschap, zussenbanden tot het op eigen benen leren staan. Met of zonder partner, maar altijd met familie.
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