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"Deeply moving "family" story."
Reviewed by Tish Glasson
Posted June 4, 2004 on The Best Reviews
New York Times bestselling author Kristin
Hannah "touches the deepest, most tender corner of our
hearts" (Tami Hoag). Her last novel, Between
Sisters, was chosen by CBS's The Early Show as
one of the best books of the summer. Now she returns with
The Things We Do for Love—a poignant,
evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood,
the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay
for love.
SummaryThe youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was
always "the princess" of the family, a girl who thought
she knew how her life would unfold. High School. College.
Marriage. Motherhood. That was how it had gone for her
sisters, her cousins, her friends. But it didn't work out
that way for Angie. She and her husband tried desperately
to have a child; year after year, their perfectly
decorated nursery remained empty. Finally, their marriage
collapsed under the weight of lost dreams.
After the divorce, Angie moved back to her hometown and
rejoined her loud, loving, slightly crazy family. In West
End, a place where life rises and falls in time with the
tides, she will find the man who once again will open her
heart to love . . . and meet the girl who will change
Angie's life.
Lauren Ribido lives in a rundown apartment in a bad part
of town with a mother who cares more about her next drink
than about her daughter. At seventeen, Lauren knows that
her aspirations in life may never come to pass.
From the moment they meet, Angie sees something special in
Lauren. They form a quick connection, this woman who is
desperate for a daughter and the girl who has never known
a mother's love. When Lauren is abandoned by her mother,
Angie doesn't hesitate to offer the girl a place to stay.
But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching
repercussions of this act of kindness. In a dramatic turn
of events, she and Lauren will be tested in a way that
mothers and daughters seldom are. Together they will
embark on an intensely moving, deeply emotional journey to
the very heart of what it means to be a family.
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